I'm going through certain entries here where everything has a tag, first, so I can make sure I tag it in the new journal--I imported the bulk of my entries some time ago and then tried to keep both updated in tandem. But the memories didn't transfer and the tags also didn't. So I'm going to work on organizing things again so I can find important ( Read more... )

After a dramatic scene with my mom and grandma when Mom found my suitcases in her trunk during a trip to Keokuk, where I planned to catch a bus to the St. Louis temple, I was finally on my way. Grandma said she wouldn't give me my birthday government savings bonds she'd purchased for me every year if I left and I told her she could keep her money; ( Read more... )

Content Warning: abuse, neglect, poverty, insects, rodents, suicide, depression, dieting, body shaming and bullying ( Read more... )

by Kirtan Smith

Please join us this Saturday, May 4th at 3764 Watseka Ave, Los Angeles at 1 pm to celebrate the life of our beloved Kesava (aka Kerry Smith). The fire sacrifice begins at 1 pm and then the memorial and feast will take place inside the temple.

Our dearly beloved Kesava peacefully left his body on April 30th at 11:55 a.m. with Kirtan ( Read more... )

I am going through memoir posts from LJ as well as the versions I wrote specifically geared to the audience of No Longer Quivering and putting them together in a set of revised posts at a Wordpress blog I have: http://tapati.wordpress.com/ I am doing them in order starting with how I came ( Read more... )

For anyone who has been following the saga of GR, my old forum:

Brainiac makes a statement about Kalki's public melt down and takes steps to calm things down.

It has been painful to watch the forum being hijacked. I spent a great deal of time helping to build it so I'm glad he's taking action to remedy the situation.

Oh this Kalki, so funny. When he pisses off a whole bunch of people and they express it, well, this is how he characterizes their response:

I see that you believe in gang wars which is what disturbed the sanctity of GR in the first place. I have a lot of good things to say about others. You have little right to ask me to be quiet seeing that i ( Read more... )

(GR=my old forum, Gaudiya Repercussions, under new management now ( Read more... )

This conversation illustrates why I am not a believer in the Hare Krishna movement any longer ( Read more... )

Here is the latest installment of my series, Patriarchy Across Cultures, at the No Longer Quivering blog, entitled Kung Fu Fighting. I explain that my abuser was, curiously, teaching me how to defend myself.