You Push & I Pelt

Lodged The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead I know how the flowers felt. -- Robert Frost.

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Help me CA kidnapped my son AGAIN!!!

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Vampires, Houseguests and the End of Kindness

Vampires, Houseguests and the End of Kindness

Think Twice Before Letting Someone In Photo Courtesy of https://www.pexels.com/@roman-odintsov/ Challenge the assumption that because you are legally and financially responsible for the residence in which you stay because you signed a lease or mortgage that you are in control once you no longer want a guest to stay. No. Once your guest has been invited in, no matter the length of time of the…

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HELP MY SON WAS KIDNAPPED

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MY CALL TO REIGN IN CA CPS POWER

MY CALL TO REIGN IN CA CPS POWER

Alameda County California’s Child Protective Services, Alameda Police Department and Alameda Point Collaborative public housing illegally detained my 5-year old son and denied him his critical asthma medicine for four days last Saturday, April 3, 2021. We are not alone.  The rights of 15 other women and children where I live have been similarly trodden on in the past four years and their lives…

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Pandemic Aside

The Confusion

I was relieved to know that my neighbor’s terrible, hacking cough was from her taking a huge hit of weed and not from possibly being infected with COVID-19.  At first, the sound of her cough had my radar up for her being a possible COVID-19 virus carrier.  I had reluctantly stepped out of my apartment for a cigarette. My son and I had been sheltered in-place for days. together. He’s…

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From Buffoon to Galoot in One Fell Swoop

From Buffoon to Galoot in One Fell Swoop

As I listened to Vice President’ Biden speaking to a group of people on the radio yesterday, Super Tuesday 2020, this metaphor for the two likely candidates for the upcoming General election came to me in a flash: “From Buffoon to Galoot in one fell swoop.” It sounds just like something my mother would say; though she’s passed more than a decade ago, I believe it was she whispering politics in…

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From Buffoon to Galoot in One Fell Swoop

From Buffoon to Galoot in One Fell Swoop

As I listened to Vice President Biden speaking to a group of people on the radio today, this metaphor for the primary election came to me in a flash “From Buffoon to Galoot in one fell swoop.” It sounds just like something my mother would say; though she’s passed more than a decade ago. She’s rolling over in her grave still not believing that The Donald is President of the United States.  I…

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Over Breakfast

She missed the clues

Dead air after so much vitriol flew

All of the prior hatred and ballyhoo

Followed by an offer of pancakes with whipped cream on Easter Sunday

too good to be true

Then the cacophony of their words–this focus’ first tattoo

"No, it's not you

Our marriage, we just outgrew...

nothing you did 

nothing you can do,

we love you

don’t argue."

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White Devil

“Racist! White Devil,” she spews

Her lips bristle—an angry red

Her skin rich, glowing brown like melted dark caramel

I think she is beautiful

Even as she wings daggers at me, I silently think

“Even translucent white devils bear crosses!”

I think this

When later the one in charge inhales deeply

Frowns and with furrowed brow

Dismisses me

—the racist white devil—

“You must learn how to please me,”…

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40+ Years on This Planet Earth

40+ Years on This Planet Earth

I did not reflect on my 40th birthday nearly four years ago. I simply cried that I was old. I howled when I realized I was older than my mother was when, as a child, I remarked to her “40? That’s old!” Please allow me to provide my my own insights on having some experience now on Earth . 1. The world stays the same. We gain and lose a variety of perspectives along the way. 2. Traveling highlights…

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Be Grateful, Love What You Do & Trust The Rest

Be Grateful, Love What You Do & Trust The Rest

The headline is a fine concept for a solitary monk in-tune with the universe who has taken a vow of silence, but what about the rest of us?  I suppose unlike the monk, we’ll be dragged kicking and screaming into the dawn of a inevitable new age powered by the human network.  The Internet is teaching us about ourselves in a communal sense.  Companies that has been brought on by the Internet,…

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Robert Frost's Words Live On...

Robert Frost’s Words Live On…

Robert Frost’s Words Live On…

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The Start of My Family and Early Intervention In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU for short, babies like my son are called "25-weekers." Babies get this name from being born extremely prematurely, at only 25 weeks gestation.

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Sex Appeal and Beauty

Sex Appeal and Beauty

Sex Appeal and Beauty

When did beauty and sex appeal become intertwined?

It has been my experience that the two things do not go hand-in-hand, yet they usually are spoken about as if they were. I think about Jean Harlow, Mae West, Mick Jagger, Denis Leary who are all very sexy indeed, but not classically beautiful. Sometimes the disconnect between society’s definition of beauty and what is…

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Unicorns, The Universe and Other Skills

I suppose it all started when I decided to become a unicorn, which is a mythical creature that doesn’t exist except in the dreams of the middle class voyeurs of weekend erotica. My demands for my individuality drove my husband to the brink of insanity. His jealousy caused him, my sister and his (my matron of honor and self-proclaimed BFF) to try and 5150 me, which I learned without having to…

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We Can Predict And Design Four Score And Seven Years From Now

We Can Predict And Design Four Score And Seven Years From Now

We Can Predict And Design Four Score And Seven Years From Now.

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40 years on Planet Earth

40 years on Planet Earth

Julia:

iamhuman is wiser than I, for I did not reflect on my 40th birthday nearly four years ago. I simply cried that I was old. I howled when I realized I was older than she was when, as a child, I remarked to her “40? That’s old!” Please allow me to be the presumptuous egomaniac writer I am and use your list for my own insights.

1. The world stays the same-we gain and lose a variety of…

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