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Cancer – are they really looking for a cure?
I remember when I felt the lump in my breast. It felt huge. I would like to say I was calm, but I can’t. I…freaked…out.
At the time I had two little kids (three, counting my husband) and I was only 35 years old. I had just been to my...
Diamonds are a retailer’s best friend
"Others are on their way," she said. "They will come armed with revenge. My little brother's death will not go unnoticed...not by you or the venomous terrorizers who keep fighting over rocks they call precious. Precious to whom? Not my people. They will come, just like me. This is...
The importance of nothing
"Nothin from nothin leaves nothin. You gotta have somethin, if you wanna be with me."
Billy Preston (The 5th Beatle)
This is a column about absolutely nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. Nothing in terms of what the heck am I going to write about today and will my fans (all four...
Water For Life
I was just thinking (this could be dangerous) about fresh clean water and how we take it for granted.
According to the World Bank, as many as two billion people lack adequate sanitation facilities to protect them from water-borne disease, while a billion lack access to clean water altogether. According...
Animals DO have rights
“…what about animals, we've turned kingdoms to dust;
what about elephants; have we lost their trust?
What about crying whales; we're ravaging the seas;
what about forest trails, burnt despite our pleas...”
What about us?
The Earth Song – Michael Jackson
I really don’t care if you wear animal fur, so long as you eat...
Climate Change is Real
The Year 20/20 Clarity. The sharpness of vision. The quality or condition of being clear or easy to understand. The 50th Anniversary of Earth Day is April 22, 2020, and us Earthlings are not in any way closer, it seems, to recognizing climate change is happening right in front...
A Howard Watson Intrigue
The Howard Watson Intrigue series Why I write what I write Based on a bunch of years of receiving "no's," in the mail from literary agents, I am still a messenger of some sort. I have not quit. I used to call myself a "closet activist" but no more....
