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Waking Up with a Stranger
There seems to be an honest-to-God belief system that having a job is a reflection of a moral or ethical state. Being employed is now a character trait. Continue reading →
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Esse-a-Go-Go: The Post Office Story
"Now I also have these," he said. He revealed the second stamp, a Black Heritage series stamp of John H. Johnson (1918-2005). I realized to my dismay that the clerk was afraid. Continue reading →
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Turning Point Images: The Girl in the Bathtub
Since the invention of the camera, human beings have known turning point images. These images capture moments denied to the outside world, but intimately connected to the realities of specific scenes...
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WARNING: Kanawha County in the rearview mirror
My home community of Kanawha County, West Virginia, held a vote on a levy that would have restored funding to the public library system (long story) and shored-up the county school system’s budget...
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Weeping for West Virginia
Reblogged from Mother Wit Writing and Design: Here in Charleston, West Virginia, we are an official federal disaster area. A coal-cleaning chemical spill into the Elk River has contaminated the water...
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Intersection: Elliot Rodger, My Past, & Every Woman’s Every Day
I remember sitting on a split-rail fence with my friend Lesley when we were 6 years old. It was a West Virginia early summer. The air was soft and warm. Shrubs bloomed behind us in the neighbor’s yard,...
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Dark As A Dungeon
Originally posted on Cultural Slagheap: Let the record show that Don Blankenship’s last public act in the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse on April 6 2016 was to reveal, openly and for the transcript,...
View ArticleWV Can’t Wait: This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around Redux
May 16, 2011, I wrote this in a blog post: Life is short. There are people out there who want to tell the stories of their youth as grand adventures in engaging serious problems with their whole...
View ArticlePolish Resistance, Regardless
Like so many people with long roots in West Virginia, I have the lovemaking, hard stepping, fight starting, large drinking, genetic and cultural legacy of Ireland and Scotland in me. It doesn’t matter...
View ArticleLabor Day: The Day of the Prophets
“This Labor Day, we Christians should stand in solidarity with the American worker, in the spirit of the “Social Creed of the Churches.” Labor Day is one of those national holidays that once...
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