Category: Gender Studies
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At The Monkey Finger Mountains: The Palm Frond Boys And The Sad Girl
[The Monkey Finger Mountains in the Sahara. Photo is mine.] Nearly every bone and muscle in my body was saying to me: Did you just ride into the desert on a large animal with a large hump? I ignored the voices coming from the dark regions of my body and sat back in the seat…
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How Do I Love Thee?
[Love me do. Source: Google Search. dreamstime.] But there is love that makes a cup of tea Love that loves both who you are and who you want to be Love that waits for you when you fall behind That’s the kind of love I hope you find. ~~Gretchen Peters Like all well-behaved bloggers, I…
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Truth And Lies-Love And Hate
You are right from your side, I am right from mine. –Bob Dylan “One Too Many Mornings” I don’t find very many quotes from Dylan that aren’t spot on. 99.999% of his poetry is impossibly true and astoundingly real. They don’t give the Nobel Prize in Literature to just any drifter from Minnesota. But, the…
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The Curse Of The Uninformed
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. ~~Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, 1867 [DNA Double Helix. Photo credit: National Human Genome Project. Art: Darryl Leja.] Your blogger is back. It’s a mildly-warm late August afternoon here on the Upper West Side. I just completed my first attempt at Wordle (did it in 4 !).…