Thoughts on Discrimination…Rolling Around in My Head
Many forms of discrimination and oppression are systemic. We need to find our common bonds and work together, as minority groups, to make a difference.
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Family Life
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My New Year’s Resolution…Be a Kinder Person and Help Others
It is almost 2014, so I am setting a standard and making my New Year’s Resolutions!
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I Have No Tears Left to Shed….
I spent my youth hating myself and fighting everything I was. I was miserable and unpleasant to be around. Then something awesome happened. I learned to accept myself.
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Just for the Record…I Never Abandoned My Family
How do you handle it when you find out your family and friends have been told lies about you for the past several years?
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With Determination Anything is Possible
A positive message about determination in the face of adversity.
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Suffering from Chronic Pain
A look at how having chronic pain has affected my life.
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The Cyclical Nature of Life and Death
RIP…you will be missed.
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Update on My Grandfather – Cutting the Freak out of the Family
This isn’t about anything I’ve done or even protecting Willie. Keeping my grandfather from me is pure selfishness and bigotry. The cruelty continues as Willie continues to hang on and I still am unable to talk to him.
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The Misleading Nature of Gender Stereotyping
Why I believe gender stereotyping only seeks to create problems. We are all unique. We are not defined by what we like, but rather who we are and how we feel. Let us rejoice in what people enjoy not castigate them for enjoying!
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In a Funk and Can’t Get Out
My birth family hates me. They hate me enough to make sure I’m on a list to be denied information about my grandfather and to be denied information on his whereabouts. They hate me enough to keep me from my Hospice room. They hate me so much they are willing to go against a dying man’s wishes of peace in his family and the right to see a grandchild he loves.