I’m back on Prince Edward Island in my reading, reliving The Great War with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Rilla of Ingleside, her fifth book featuring Anne Shirley Cuthbert Blythe of Green Gables, published in 1921. Montgomery wrote two more, prequel tales, but years later, so this will conclude her first 7-8 year burst of creativityContinue reading “The fantasy that we are monsters”
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Would you rather be safe or free?
(It’s funny what 22 years can do to something you wrote. This chapter, incorporating two newspaper columns I wrote back in the day, may be the most chilling bit in my book Refuse to be Afraid.) Would you rather be safe or free? It’s been the central question in the United States of America forContinue reading “Would you rather be safe or free?”
Maybe the squirrel is not the problem
I started to write something along the lines of “Quit whining about everything that’s wrong with the world and set your mind free,” and I caught myself up short. Who am I, after all, to tell other people how to live their lives? When I’m thinking straight, I refuse to “tell” other people how toContinue reading “Maybe the squirrel is not the problem”
How terrible are these creatures
Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, 8:10 a.m. Instead of writing first thing, it is two hours since I woke. I’ve done the morning crossword, lathered up some outrage — Biden bombed the Middle East, meet the new boss same as the old boss what a surprise can you hear my sarcasm — fed the dogs andContinue reading “How terrible are these creatures”
The War Prayer
116 years or so after he wrote it, Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer” remains powerfully relevant. For everyone who applauds the New Boss’s bombing of the Middle East today: The War Prayer by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, inContinue reading “The War Prayer”
The work of our lifetimes
OK, some days I have nothing to say because someone has already said it all better than I ever could. I devote my efforts today to urging you to go read Bari Weiss’ brilliant call to stand up for individual rights and freedom. “I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that weContinue reading “The work of our lifetimes”
Freedom and the things of state
This is the final entry in my latest journal, covering mid-September to the end of January. It’s been a tumultuous fall and winter “out there.” The bolshevik revolution is in full swing, and who knows how much longer I’ll be able to write and speak my mind? At least as long as people manufacture booksContinue reading “Freedom and the things of state”
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Alternatives to tyranny are out there
I’ve been trying out a new browser called Brave, recommended because it allows for a level of privacy no longer available through many of the big names. I like it so far. I had been using Mozilla Firefox for years, but I downloaded Brave five minutes after I learned that Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker didn’tContinue reading “Alternatives to tyranny are out there”
Free people seek the light, always
I wish I could remember where I saw it, and I wish I had written it down, or saved it, or printed it out, but I don’t and I didn’t so … You’ll just have to take my word for it. (You do remember when a person’s word was his/her bond, right?) Some time backContinue reading “Free people seek the light, always”
