What I Did Not Know About Racism
My guest blogger Mirinda Kossoff, who grew up in small-town Danville, VA, shares a powerful recollection in What I Did Not Know About Racism of what it was like to grow up in the South one hundred years after the Civil War. She has lived and worked in Japan and England as well as the […]
The Surprising Bliss of the Non-Consumer
The Surprising Bliss of the Non-Consumer One of the best things I’ve done lately is to set up a weekly conversation with an accountability buddy. I talked about doing this for years but just started during shutdown—partly because video calls make it easy, and partly because other things disappeared off my calendar. My accountability buddy […]
Different Boats – Same Ocean
Different Boats – Same Ocean I recently gave a sermon at my UU church and it struck me afterwards how aligned it was with my Manifesto – with the exception that I have, since, moved on to grey hair. Of course, it should be aligned. The same experiences and life events shaped me and my […]
News Flash – Diamonds Upstaged by Sex Toys
Diamonds Upstaged by Sex Toys They say that a dog is a man’s best friend. They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But a woman’s best friends are her sex toys. Don’t you wish you owned a sex toy company? As the pandemic continues, sales are way up both for conventional sex […]
Dare to Enjoy
Dare to Enjoy It is easy for me to notice when I am wronged as a woman, as an older person; it is much harder to notice my privilege. And when I do glimpse my privilege it can be difficult to remain in joy. I am looking out the window of my study in the […]
Make Revolution Not Porn
Make Revolution Not Porn I don’t watch porn. Not even the home-grown, fully consensual, amateur porn on Cindy Gallop’s website, MakeLoveNotPorn (MLNP). So I might seem an unlikely fan of Ms. Gallop, the almost-60-year-old former advertising executive whose main claim to fame is starting MLNP. And after being at the receiving end of various campaigns […]
