I’ve been pondering this one for a while. New York Times has an article about it. An eight year old boy shot and killed his father and a boarder, his father’s friend. Deliberately. One victim was found outside the house. One was found inside–upstairs, in a bedroom.
I have no answers. Seems there’s a surfeit of […]
I don’t talk very often about the fact that my mom was a single mother for a while, back when I was a little thing. She was a waitress, and I’d spend the nights with Nanna and Herbert, and the days running around with my wonderful mom. I remember being scared of construction sites (I […]
I love reading Susan Palwick’s blogs. She’s a sci-fi writer,volunteer hospital chaplain, and random do-gooder whose words often spark some wild hope and debate within my own, tumultuous soul.
Please read today’s entry over at Improbable Optimisms: Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good:
This week at the hospital, I learned that dying, or learning that you’re going […]
If you’re a single mother because you were in a bad relationship, there’s a good chance your baggage has a tendency not to just open up at inopportune times, but to actually explode all over the place in an extravagant display of dirty laundry. I don’t know that I’ve ever written about this, but towards […]
There are some rumblings in Jolly Old England that girls are getting themselves knocked up so they can have a posh Council flat and live on the dole. If you scratch the surface of the blogosphere you can come across some pretty nasty, bitter blogs written by nasty, bitter men who seem to think that […]
Thoughts have been swirling around in my brain all weekend. We don’t live in the best neighborhood, though it’s ‘up and coming’ and ‘transitional’ and its name has been cobbled together from a classier zip code… with a qualification tacked on at the end. A 33 year old woman was raped not far from here. In […]
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