Thoughts from an American Female

Who are we? I can tell you who I am. I am a woman, raised Catholic, in Massachusetts. When I was 15 years old, I told my father I didn't want to make my Confirmation. He said okay. He didn't argue, he didn't tell me that I had to make it, he didn't force me to follow a religion I was beginning to doubt. Instead, he embraced my agnosticism and let me explore other theologies so that I could become more aware. I have always enjoyed mythology and I've read many myths and folktales from around the globe. I particularly enjoy stories of creation. Reading the many stories from tales about Blood-Clot Boy from the Blackfoot tribe to Adam and Eve of Judeo-Christan origins. All of them are impossible, all of them are trying to teach us something, and all of them have some basis in fact at the time the stories were told. In my teens, I began to explore Wicca. I read about it and realized it wasn't "evil" as some people claimed but instead closely matched the ...

There is nothing I despise more than a lie. Lies, when repeated often enough, can be believed by the person that fabricated them. Never before in our country have we had a president that lies so constantly, with a base that believes him so completely that has a news station to amplify him. It is horrendous, it is dangerous. We need to mobilize, we need to stop this. If not now, when? If not us, who? These children can't speak for themselves. They're minors. Some younger than my three year old. It pains me to think of either of my children in captivity, away from me, with no clear path back to me. How can they do this? How can any government do this? I think of their little faces, their eyes, already filled with fear of being in a new place, feeling solace only from the embrace of their parents and then the mean men take them away and put them in cages. This is traumatic. A senator, I think, Steve King, said that Abortion is the true final separator of child from mot...