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I am a writer. "I sit at a typewriter and bleed". I'm also a holistic health care and Reiki Master practitioner (also certified in complimentary and alternative medicine).

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Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Ideas for combating voter apathy: 2 of 18

I have voted in every election since I have been eligible; and I don't think that voters are apathetic. I think they are defeated. I have not lived in an America that didn't have a Bush or a Clinton in the White House in some capacity (Bush part I was V.P. in 1981 when I was born). I have not voted in a presidential election...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Death: 14 of 63

Sharp little teeth smiled from a photograph at Mary Ellen Shlipher. The teeth were part of the thin lipped dry smile of Mary Ellen's twin sister, so they may as well have been hers. The photograph had yellowed with age, and dust covered some edges so bad that they were nearly impossible to wipe off without crumbling them, bu...
Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Why we can't leave Iraq: 2 of 7

It's very easy to say that you were against the war from the very beginning (Congressman Ron Paul and Senator Barack Obama). It's easier to say in retrospect that knowing what you know now, you never would have voted for it (Senator Hillary Clinton). The hard question to answer however is that now that we are there what we a...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Does J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series pervert American values: 4 of 12

If a family being able to share the experience of reading together is NOT an American value, then yes J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series perverts it. What are we stupid? Of course not! Since the 1980's it has been encouraged that parents should read with and to their children, Ms. Rowling's books have made it a more enjoyabl...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Loneliness: 32 of 86

It was dark. Again I had forgotten to pay my electricity bill. Who knew a final notice was sowellfinal. Alone, big surprise. Again my wife had forgotten to come home. So I hadn't had a steady check in six months give or take, and we had to move into a studio on the lower east side with neighbors who constantly bicker in Span...
Health & Fitness > Herbal & Natural Remedies How to treat menstruation naturally: 3 of 8

Clinical studies have proven that women handle pain better than men; it doesn't mean we should have to! About once a month my uterus feels like a sponge being rung out by a not so gentle hand, my head throbs and my back aches, my legs feel as though I've run a marathon and I still have to work. "Unfortunately" for me, I'm al...
Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Banning smoking in public areas: 23 of 61

Let's forget for a moment the rights of the smokers, because we have. When the smoking ban, or as they tried to call it 'Indoor Air Protection Act' was passed in Colorado, they gave us some time to get used to the idea before it was implemented. We in the service industry grumbled and made bad jokes until the night it happen...
Religion & Spirituality > Pagan & Earth-Based Religions Critique of Wicca: Roots in Satanism: 5 of 13

Of all the stupid things I've read recently (and I just recently finished reading an article written about two cities in Texas arguing over which one deserves the George W. Bush library), the title to this article takes the cake as the cliche goes. Modern Wicca has roots in ancient (as in older than the written Christian bib...
Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center What responsibility does the world bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from the horror of serving in armed conflict?: 27 of 70

What responsibility does the world bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from the horror of serving in armed conflict? As much as it can. When a child is forced into armed combat s/he is put into a world that their emotional being cannot handle. We have seen it here in America; eighteen year old kids that went off to Vietna...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues The growing movement to suppress Christianity: 7 of 18

The phrase "Oh please!" is mostly used by 7-14 year old girls to express exasperation at how silly a situation is. Oddly enough, I find that it is applicable here. Judea/Christians are 90% of the population in the United States. The other 10% is comprised of 2 million Muslims, thousands of Pagan/Wiccans, thousands of Buddhis...