We need to treat human violence as a disease, with medical and social sciences targeting this illness with everything we've got. I mean, everything. Let's call it HVD: Human Violence Disease.


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“My” life? What is that, anyway? Is it something I own, like a coat? Will it still be “mine” after I cease to “be,” after I die? Or will it disappear? If it disappears, will I miss it? I didn’t miss it for those thousands of years of human existence when “I” did not exist. I doubt I’ll be missing it for those thousands of years to come, during ( Read more... )

Beth felt funny about the title of her review, "When Bad Things Happen to Bad People."  With my help, she realized a lot of people would not understand her point and take it the wrong way.  So I wrote an entirely new review for Amazon, which maybe captures a little better what Beth was trying to say.   Here is the new review, as written by me, ( Read more... )

The above could be an alternative title for Murder as a Call to Love
the new book by Judith Toy (Cloud Cottage Editions).  I went to listen to the author read from her book at Jubilee in Asheville, NC, yesterday, and following that was a slide show on the Forgiveness Project.

Face it, despite all the books about bad things happening to good ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wish I wasn't so moody, or so vacillating in my energy, or whatever it is, but sometimes I write like I have bells on my ankles and I am dancing with the muse, and at other times there is nothing.  NO THING.  I don't even want to talk.  And don't get me started about talking on the telephone.  I am female, and the stereotype of females ( Read more... )