The vitriolic hatred toward Muslims and ignorance of Islam being spewed from the mouth of bigots upsets me. It upsets me because it is entirely too reminiscent of the ‘Jews are a sickness on the national body’ garbage propagated by anti-Semitic malefactors and other assorted scum in the past and today among the neo-Nazi and… Read more Terrorism and Representation
Sometimes people ask me why I am so weirdly persnickety about my eldest daughter’s food intake. Why can’t I just let the poor kid have a piece of birthday cake? It’s one thing to cut back on sugar, but why don’t I lighten up on my Sherman-through-Georgia attitude toward wheat and artificial food colors? Why… Read more Asperger’s, Microbiota, and Food
From a politically conservative and wonderful friend of mine. I was raised in what I’ve always called a southern military conservative household. All four of my grandparents, and therefore my parents, are from Kentucky. My father was military. His father was military. I married military. I was baptized, raised, and married in the United… Read more Guest Post On Marriage Equality
I wanted to have a nice celebration blog about the SCOTUS legalizing marriage for all citizens, but world events have put a kibosh on that. Monsters and madmen acting on behalf of Daesh have indulged in three terrorist attacks, including two mass murders, in the last 24 hours and I feel compelled to talk about… Read more Daesh Terrorist Attacks in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia
I have a good friend in great distress. Her sister’s ex-husband and his new wife, whom I shall call Nimrod and Bandersnatch, have decided to fat-shame and torment my friend’s niece because they think she is ‘out of shape’. The little girl is only ten years old. Although she is not overweight or obese in… Read more Fat Shaming Preteen Girls Harms Them For Life
My eldest daughter, Bubbles, will be entering the 5th grade this August and we have been reading up on social interaction and Asperger’s syndrome in preparation for preteen ‘drama’, conflict, or bullying. It has led me to some fascinating information. People with Asperger’s syndrome are typically very direct. We don’t do (or even know how… Read more Conflict Aversion, Assertion, Aggression and Asperger’s
Jesus wept. As I am sure most of you know, a 21 year old white man named Dylann Storm Roof attended a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and after an hour he started shooting members of the historically black church, killing nine of them. A survivor reported… Read more On Hate Crimes and Denial of Racism
A lady by the name of Della Curry was recently fired from her job kitchen manager at an Aurora, Colorado, elementary school. Why? She was giving hungry kids food instead of pitching it into the trash when the kids didn’t have the money to pay for it: “I was let go for not charging for… Read more Della Curry–A Good Human Being
A school in Bedford, KY recently had an employee do something incredibly heartless. Someone who works for Bedford Elementary School took away a students hot lunch and threw it in the trash in front of all her classmates because the little girl’s lunch account had insufficient funds. Bear in mind that the child was already… Read more Out of the Mouth of Babes
Amy Licence and I are now inviting proposals for papers to be included in a multidisciplinary edited volume entitled Envisioning the Tudor Woman: Historical and Modern Representations of Women from the Tudor Era. The deadline for submitting a proposal is December 1, 2015. Papers must be between 8000 – 10,000 words in length and focus… Read more Call for Papers on Tudor Women