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Three Steps Part 5: The Second Step
Introduction
Part 1: Recollection, Remembrance, and Discovery
Part 2: That Old Time Liberal Religion Part 3: The First Step
Part 4: Feminism and Fellowship The second half of the 1970s was a time of growing tension in American society, and in my family. We had had the first real economic crisis since the Great Depression, and people were jumpy ( Read more... ) -
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I'm starting to transfer my LJ posts to DW. Great, just what I need, another task to get in the way of actually writing. -
Three Steps Part 4: Feminism and Fellowship
So what do you do when it seems like your birthparents, your adoptive family and your church tell you that you, the individual person, are worthless? You start looking for other ways to make progress. In the 1970s there was another way that had made astounding progress in recent years, and that was through collective action and identification with ( Read more... ) -
I hate new computers.
Why does there have to be so many fiddly bits to reconnect when you get -- well, reconnected? So ( Read more... ) -
Homeschool Update
We have been extremely busy lately. The girls have started computer-based classes at Khan Academy, which eats up my computer access. More importantly, Brighteyes has taken the ACT. She got a bit confused on the math section, which lowered her grade. She only made a 34. Out of 36. Nobody's complaining. She started taking duel-enrollment ( Read more... ) -
Three Steps Out the Church Door Part 3: The First Step
Introduction
Part 1: Recollection, Remembrance, and Discovery
Part 2: That Old Time Liberal Religion
And he walks with me and he talks with me
And he tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known.
1974 - A few months before we had moved from Vicksburg to Birmingham, from a small ranch house to a split- ( Read more... ) -
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At the ripe old age of almost-50, I seem to be assembling my first mixtape inside my head. Which is good, because I have no idea how to put one together in real life. -
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To kids: This is an important day. We have finally deemed you genre-savvy enough for -- this!
**inserts Galaxy Quest with a flourish**
It's gonna be a good New Year's Eve. -
My Messed-Up Family Tree
My adoptive father and adoptive aunt came from there. They'd say the name, and nothing more. They'd been trained never to talk or think about it and trained their own adoptive children to do the same, but it hurt them deeply. A two-generation adopted family -- we were supposed to role models. I guess we were, if you looked beneath the surface.
The ( Read more... )