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Speak Your Mind Even If Your Voice Shakes
That is a bumper sticker quote I read today on my blog buddy’s site – St Tropez Butler. I’m a Libra and typical to the sign, I hate confrontation. Last week was Pride week and on Saturday, Lise and I attended some of the festivities in downtown Windsor. One of...
Softwood
Well, it looks like Canada has made a deal with the US on the ongoing softwood lumber dispute. We’re going to get $4 billion of the $5 billion they illegally took from us. I don’t trust them and I don’t trust our current government to do well by us. It looks like I’m...
Happy 4th Of July!
I wanted to share a little something to honour this celebration but had a hard time finding something that I felt represented to me all that is good about and all of my best memories of the United States. Just as I was about to give up, I found this sweet video....
Talking To Americans
I just watched a video of some of Anne Coulter’s comments about Canada. I just had to revisit this old CBC special as it helps me put her ignorance in perspective. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/embed/gFgPX0hnNfA https://www.youtube.com/embed/iSJdFsbjHWw
What’s Wrong
When I was a little girl I believed I lived in a world of moral absolutes. There was right and there was wrong. There were Catholics and Protestants. Cops and robbers. The Freeworld and Commie bastards. I was taught to respect authority and trust in the principles of...
Conversation Piece
Gather two or more Black women together for any appreciable amount of time and the conversation will eventually get to the topic of hair. I was about six years old when I discovered that one can have either “good” hair or “bad” hair. Curlier or “nappy” hair was bad...