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About me - Cindy Thrasher

My name is Cindy Thrasher. By day, I am a banker (community, not Wall Street) and by night I am a closet writer. I am either staring at a computer screen while I wait for the words to appear before me (it is magic, is it not?), or I am fantasizing that I

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Death of a parent
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It was a nippy day in January and my mother was dying. The tumor in her lung that had lain miraculously dormant for a decade had abruptly come alive and begun to grow, complicating her already fragile respiratory system. My sister and I, keeping watch, wandered in and out of her room, feeling powerless and unprepared for wha... More..

Autos > Motorcycles & Scooters How to be safe on a motorcycle
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In the current economic environment, many folks are choosing to divest themselves of their gas-guzzling SUV or pick-up truck in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. Others have chosen to purchase motorcycles for even greater fuel economy. If you are one of the latter, then safety absolutely needs to be at the top of y... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Finding yourself
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Revelation The drug of euphoria holding her aloft abandons her. She thuds back to reality battered bruised bent and sees with horror the mirror of her soul reflecting a tiny her sitting cross-legged in the quicksand of her self-centeredness Nothing is the same that was no veil left to hide the truth from her; the lie her lif... More..

Business > Advertising Do ads that use sex to sell their products degrade women?Smallicon
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Yes, they do. A woman's sexuality cannot be divorced from her humanity, yet Madison Avenue earns huge amounts of money using it to deliver secular messages to specifically targeted markets. At the same time, they subliminally promote the idea that a woman's worth resides in her physical attributes, and in her ability to succ... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Is national security more important than civil rights?Smallicon
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National security is obviously of utmost concern to everyone in this country in light of what is going on in the world today. The notion we were safe behind the imaginary walls of our borders was proven to be grossly misguided when, on September 11, 2001, the two towers of the World Trade Center dissolved into a massive clou... More..

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