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New Poem for “Friday Feast”– Chalice
To participate in the Friday Feast meme click here. Questions? jenneandrews2010@gmail.com. I’m also featured in Leslie Moon’s beautiful artist and writer series at One Stop Poetry today. Chalice for...
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Michael Jackson, A Lesson in the Abuse of Free Will
In advance of the burgeoning national obsession with the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with the murder of Michael Jackson by overdose of an anesthetic that shouldn’t be used outside a hospital, I...
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Up Yours, “Higher Power.”
I admit it; my heart is filled with rage at something, everything, 85% of the time. Whatever desire I used to have to become a loving and tolerant person toward those who are not or are not themselves...
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Notes On Emotional Fly-fishing….
Many years ago now, when my mother and I had a bad argument, I took everything so much to heart I would go down into my room in our basement and lie face down on my bed. I was in intense pain, like a...
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Notes on Personal Rules of the Road
Post has been updated, Friday, July 11. What a long hot summer, and still only part way to the end. We are all prone to smoldering, in some instances flammable. Since putting up my fly-fishing post...
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At Sixty-Four….Confined and Defined No Longer
My gratitude and thanks-giving begin with the lovely fact that my immediate neighbors were out of town for a night and a morning. As some of you may know from reading previous posts, since July when I...
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Mea Culpa: Let Love Be Incarnate in December….
When I was a teenager, ever buoyed by high school, that I was a blossoming writer and editor of the newspaper, and a member of the a cappella choir, I so looked forward to this season– Advent– per the...
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Why I Don’t Have a Gun
Breaking. Twenty-six dead in Connecticut, twenty of them young children. Breaking. More to come. It won’t stop. It won’t stop, and can’t stop, until we find a way to rout out the insane among us who...
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Does the Shoe Fit? Tell the World.
If writer Liza Long, in the immediate wake of Newtown, exaggerated her account of her son’s alleged mental illness in her post over the weekend, I am Adam Lanza’s Mother, and her frustration with him,...
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Thriving Virtually: Literary Ahoys in the Night
I recently “shared” a new poem on Facebook, where one of the “apps” is that you can write a so-called note (paste in a post in a text window), and then save and tag it with the names of people you’d...
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Si Se Puede – Learning to Transcend, Love and Live with the Inner Girl
On an Indian summer day in 1979, my 60 year old mother did the first independent thing she had done in thirty years. She went AWOL from the nursing home where her frustrated psychiatrist had believed...
View ArticleBurning Down the House: Love & Co-Dependency at the Turning Year
Four nights ago my husband and I made love for the first time in several weeks. When you bring a new “baby” home– in this case, our beautiful Golden Retriever puppy from Kharkov, Ukraine, tiny and...
View ArticleThe Hidden US Affliction: Rage
Today many of us tuned into MSNBC to see the Florida shooter in Court, who with head bowed, averting his eyes from the camera, no AR 15 in sight, looked like any other kid. He is reported to be...
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A Call to Arms – It Is Time. Amendment 2 Empowers All of Us….& Bill of Rights…
You. You there, with your head in a book, playing with your kids in the back yard, having a latte at Starbucks. Yeah, you. The ubiquitous American liberal. You. When is enough enough? When is all...
View ArticleThe American Tradition by Law & Precedent: The Right to Assemble to Remove...
The unspeakable anguish which the rogue president is personally perpetrating on refugee children and parents on our southwestern border is only the most recent egregious and intolerable of his sins...
View ArticleTo See That One and Know Him as Perpetrator: Our Burgeoning Sacrosanct Duty...
The most egregious thing Donald Trump has committed against the American people, our Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution is to have put Latin American refugee children into a traumatic diaspora...
View Article“Coming Unto” a Greater Reality…Necessity Takes Us There
When I was a little girl who went to St. John’s Cathedral Sunday School in Albuquerque, I remember hearing someone say that Jesus loved babies and had said, “Suffer the little children to come unto...
View ArticleA Telegram to Our Allies: Why Life Under Trump Is a Welter of Anguish
Quite recently the world watched in dismay as thirteen Thai boys and their soccer coach languished in a water-filled cave starving and awaiting rescue. Briefly there was moon rise in the heart– all...
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What Thou Lovest Well Remains Thy Country – Reflections of an American Poet
The Great Delano: “Land of the Dineh” I love our country—as John McCain has said in the words immortalized by his death several days ago—not only as a nation made of diverse people and regions, but...
View ArticleI Too….Know A Certain Kind of Shame, the Cure Being Sunlight
For my Sisters in #MeToo & Otherwise I am an accomplished published poet, viewed by many wonderful people to be highly gifted. I am a civil rights advocate—a force of nature, in that regard, a...
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