… a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people – It could be paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class It’s a no-brainer everyday should be women’s appreciation day. Sure, we have these Hallmark milestones in the country – Black History …
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to …
Leaning into the Memoir Writing by Paul Haeder / February 21st, 2022 Below, an assignment: Find some object you hold near and dear. Something that can leap you into backward narrative. Something to hold you as a memoir writer, going back, reflecting back. That thing, you can hold or touch. You find meaning in it. …
There are so many reasons why “they” don’t hire folks like “me.” Strike up the ageism and sexism band. I am 65, a male, and the jobs I am attempting to get are in the social services arena. Educational navigator, state and county jobs, even city jobs. The writing is on the wall, in a …
I have people worried that as white writers they will be hit with “cultural appropriation” if they write a novel with characters who are not of their own race. You know the deal — writing about barrios, or ghettos or even a mix of people in a big city, people outside the lilly white background …
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” ― Smedley Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar …
I’m writing this as a reaction to the aftermath of a friendship — shortlived, at one month — extinguished over, well, socialism. An arugment over socialism and Jesus. Questions around what to do with the homeless. Or how to treat and deal with those rough sleepers as well as those homeless in a van and …
The assault on not just our land, air, soil, food, but on our minds continues daily at breakneck speed, and again the question is, But who voted to approve these obscenities? Example One — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force awarded SpaceX a $102 million five-year contract to demonstrate technologies and capabilities to transport military cargo and …
Are We the Sum Total of Our Life, Theirs, Inside Our Darkest Thoughts? by Paul Haeder / January 19th, 2022 There is no such thing as an ending. At the conclusion of any work of art, just like at the conclusion of any experience, what we arrive at is a site of interpretation. Every reader …
Isn’t it really puzzling that “a large portion of U.S. aid to Israel is classified”? — Grant F. Smith, “Ten ways the Israel lobby ‘moves’ America,” 7/25/2016 Israel’s Influence: Good or Bad for America? An analysis of the history, size, scope and activities of Israel affinity organizations and their increasingly negative—but little known—impact on all …
