WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Commuting, Cronehood, Earth, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Rural Womyn, Sustainability, The Skies, the Animals on Feb 20th, 2010
Family and friends alike had been stunned by my decision to keep the farm after the divorce. How could such a practical, reasonable person lose touch with reality? they worried. Even I had trouble explaining the decision…
But two years had gone by and still I stayed. ”The place is killing you,” my brother would say [...]
Posted in Cronehood, Deciding to Live, Her, It's all connected, Love, Prayers, Sisterhood, Sustainability on Feb 14th, 2010
Annie Lennox and All Green, both of whose music I have loved for decades. The clips are from the movie “Scrooged.” H/t to my brother Bob on Facebook.
I have had an absolutely hellish couple of months that have had me thinking deeply, deeply about so many things. I’m feeling my age, remembering things, considering some things.
To my knowledge, I have never read “slash” and don’t really know what it is.
I have never read any Harry Potter books, neither have I seen any [...]
Posted in Cronehood, Her, Inspiration, It's all connected, Love, The Mother, Women's Culture, Women's Spirituality on Jul 23rd, 2009
I pulled this card this morning (and a couple of times this week) after months of never pulling this one. Before that, I was pulling it also several times a week, over months.
Things are hard for me now (nothing new, this is just a little different kind of hardness) but I recognize [...]
Posted in Cronehood on Jul 3rd, 2009
When researcher Peggy Kleinplatz put out a call for “great lovers” across Canada and the United States, she and her team were deluged with old married people. “Interviewees said that sex became “greater” when it became slower, less focused on orgasm and less “goal-directed” in general. (…) And with experience, one learned that “the great [...]
Posted in Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Aging, Cronehood, Earth, Exile, Feminism, Iraq, It's all connected, Loss, Love, Love Between Women, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Sisters, Pakistan, Sisterhood, The Mother, The Rape of Iraq, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", War on Mar 15th, 2009
Thirty-five years ago, when I’d been with my second husband for a couple of years, and after Jeyoani had been born, I briefly believed that my ex’s son by a former relationship, Aaron, might come to live with us. He visited a few times and did come to stay with us, but not for very long. He [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Cronehood, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Inspiration, It's all connected, Practical Radical Feminism, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Working Class People, the Animals on Dec 21st, 2008
Carla Emery as a young woman
I’ve been thinking about the women in my life who have most deeply influenced me (besides my mother, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, relatives by blood, all of whom have so deeply influenced me and who have given me so much). One of these women was Carla Emery, who died [...]
