I am organizing a memoir writing workshop for women like myself who have suffered deep trauma in their childhoods or early adulthood — emotional injuries that carry forward and mess up our adult lives as well. Of course, many of those injuries trace back to physical and sexual abuse. And…

You are too young (I'm guessing) to remember the late 70s/early 80s when white women got afro perms. Sort of like a white Angela Davis, but with a whole lot less hair. I leaned into it briefly. Heck I have some pics around somewhere, but these were taken long before digital cameras... The main reason I chose it (aside from it being a popular style) was how it simplified hair care for me. Just run a comb through it, do some lifts with the handle of a rat-tail comb, and voila! Took all of 2 minutes. Sometimes less.

You and I are "personality twins" on this issue. Every point you make here: BOOM! Someone else is of the same mind as I.. I'm not going to write here any of my long stories about a connection this time. Just saying "thank you"!

Have to disagree with you here. I knew all these things would happen. When people don't have that information/interpretation before writing about it, they should probably spend a bit more time educating themselves. Starting with understanding and recognition of who benefits from the information being presented in the way it…

Well, first of all we have to recognize that the consolidation of big corporations into even bigger megacorporations, and then BIGGER mega corporations has created a virtual monopoly on many goods. Perfect example is gasoline. The oil companies thought they'd get away with massively increasing prices and blaming it on…

Not sure this will help, but... I'm 74 years old and most of my trauma is in the very distant past, but sometimes I, too, get "triggered" by events, both personal and political. For instance, I went into a deep downward spiral after trump was elected president. In this piece…

I like "Dark Brandon" a lot. That character is ballsy. But in the memes, Biden's real name should stand out there, brightly shining and proud."Dark Biden" -- the man who is wrangling the MAGAts into submission. Poor baybees! And they don't know what to do with him, especially since they…

I must be a real outlier on Facebook. My friends talk about bad things in their lives as well as good. …

I have very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I really feel for the adult half-sister given the situation all together. I can understand why she would be very resistant to taking on that 7-year-old, ALONG WITH HER BROTHERS FFS. …