I haven't used LJ now for about 6 years. I just tonight decided to come see if it was still here or not. I got caught up in the Facebook frenzy in 09, though I didn't get really active on there until early 2011 right about the time my mom passed. I like Facebook. But as a place to keep track of personal stuff, it is lacking. So it occurred to me ( Read more... )

Hello All ( Read more... )

Cna yuo raed tihs? i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses ( Read more... )

I just want to take a moment to say ( Read more... )

It is "Black Friday" and it has officially started ( Read more... )

Just a heads up to anyone who's reading this drivel ( Read more... )

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died ( Read more... )

Rosa Parks, February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005
Rest in Peace, Ms. Parks... you earned it!!

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Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, dead at 92

October 24, 2005, 11:13 PM

DETROIT (AP) -- Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the ( Read more... )

I'm cooking a wonderful dinner tonight ( Read more... )

The electricity went out on me again tonight. This time I happened to be cooking supper... ARGH ( Read more... )