Anne McCaffrey has died. It's a sad day for the science fiction and fantasy community. She was a powerhouse of the genre, helping to pave the way for generations of women creators after her. She also created some very popular worlds, including the Dragonriders of Pern ( Read more... )

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Wilfred Owen Move him into the sun ( Read more... )

Every year for Mother's Day, this is the hope I post. Once again, here it is. Let us make of today and everyday a remembrance and an ongoing labor toward peace and tolerance ( Read more... )

On this Day of Remembrance, two songs by Eric Bogle about the First World War, lest we forget:

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A couple of quick hits:

10 Hard Truths About War for Veterans' Day and Every Other Day

For Desperate or Troubled Veterans There are Options and ResourcesPop-out from this article, because my family has been touched by this issue and others like ( Read more... )

Ok, so remember what I said about dealing with the fact that people will disagree with me on things, but I should post anyway ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, my family took part in quite a few memorials and tributes to Vietnam Veterans, often involving the Moving Wall. I remember one year, here in Houston at Hermann Park, they came to set up the wall, and my brother and I were part of a team doing a special job. We had a swathe of grass by the reflection pool roped off, and inside the ( Read more... )

Every year for Mother's Day, this is the hope I post. Let us make of  today and everyday a remembrance and an ongoing labor toward peace and  tolerance.

Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation, written  in 1870:

Arise, then, women of this day ( Read more... )

It feels weird blogging this weekend - I don't want to go blithely forth posting about the non-family things that happened, because that would be equally strange and misleading.  But it's nevertheless odd to be posting ( Read more... )

I got in my car and turned on Democracy Now! midstream, with Noam Chomsky talking about civil disobedience in the 60s and it took almost the entire conversation before I realized that they were talking about Howard Zinn in the past tense. I actually said, "Oh, no!" out loud to the radio.

Thank You Thursdays: Howard Zinn - Feministing:Howard Zinn ( Read more... )

Despite the patronizing headline, I did find this article helpful.

5 Things You Didn't Know About Veterans (And How You Can Support Them)
Veteran's Day only happens once a year, but our nation's veterans need our support year-round. We've pulled together five facts about U.S. veterans, the great organizations that are supporting them and how you ( Read more... )