"This Old Dog Can Still Bark"

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Saturday May 12, 2012 · 2:22 AM PDT

2012/05/12 · 02:22

“ For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you have gained you lose something.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had considered myself lucky...having the same job for over 16 years when so many were out of work and struggling but I had to face a "line in the sand moment" after over a year of silent suffering...

JMoore

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Wednesday November 30, 2011 · 4:21 PM PST

2011/11/30 · 16:21

A while back a follower on Twitter asked me a question which I wanted to answer but 140 characters is sometimes torture for a long-winded broad like me.I tried to answer tho' never really got much said. A few days later ,a similar question was put to me…both queries were based on a tweet that I try to re-tweet at least once a day when I can…with my own message at the start of it:

As a victim who survived I urge you to please help #StopChildAbuse ~Report It ! Donate a tweet a day. http://JustCoz.org/...

Maybe it’s because of what’s been in the news lately…maybe it’s just because it is still the whole world’s dirty little secret that a lot of the children on this planet are abused and live in constant fear…but I did open the door when I put it out there that I was not only a victim but also one who survived…The question was posed again on my blog...I got the feeling that someone upstairs wanted me to address in a more contemplative and serious fashion so I promised to try and answer it.

JMoore

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Tuesday November 08, 2011 · 5:44 AM PST

2011/11/08 · 05:44

While alot of the lame-stream media put off even acknowledging OWS and still are practically ignoring or distorting the Occupy movements one of the journalist who isn't is Keith Olbermann.I wanted to take a moment and share another part of this good man that has touched my family greatly.

It should to be said…There have only been a handful of men that I have greatly admired and respected in my life…My Father being always #1. He’s been gone over 28 years now but I still kind of talk to him and quite often can hear his voice in my head.(Not to be confused with those who hear bad voices in their head that tell them to run for President.)

It’s not that I’m a hard-to-please-male-bashing-woman….LOL, I love men…(though I did date a girl in college for awhile. I'm remembering that she was extremely hot brunette…and being the open-minded free-thinker my father raised me to be…well, let’s just say it was an interesting summer.) Whoa, cool flash back moments…where was I ??

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"Lifting A Glass Today"

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Monday September 26, 2011 · 3:59 PM PDT

2011/09/26 · 15:59

We, all, have those days that we mark on our calendars to reflect on something or someone. Whether we do so to honor or simply remember is usually up to each individual to decide upon. As a Nation, even Congress, for their lacking in getting most of what really needs to get done accomplished… they do manage to get a lot of endless resolutions passed like “National Take Your French Poodle To Lunch Day” (Ok, probably not a real resolution but I’ve seen the lists and this one is close.)

Today is a day that has always been a special one in my life and I wanted to share it with you. First by telling you a few interesting things that happened in 1930…

JMoore

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Monday September 19, 2011 · 4:00 PM PDT

2011/09/19 · 16:00

It is so amazing to me now, how much of what we learn is not in a classroom. I know that there has been a hundred years of studies on how environment, culture, race, religion, sexual orientation and quite possibly whether you got to play with a yo-yo or not have an impact on how and why you end up thinking the way you do...on the equally mundane as well as important amounts of the matter and anti-matter that consumes us.

We seem to get selectively assigned early in life. We either rebel against it, expand on it or heck, just find a different path entirely. This for all intent and purpose works for almost every level of existence however for this sharing I would like to dwell momentarily on a few things that fell into place for my brain to work as it does.

JMoore

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Friday September 02, 2011 · 8:35 AM PDT

2011/09/02 · 08:35

Everything that has transpired in the last few days surrounding the President’s Jobs Plan speech has created quite a buzz in most of the social networks I frequent. I have watched as some of my friends have been berated for voicing their disappointment in way the whole thing was handled.

How in a 24 hour cycle most went from praising our Leader for his show of fortitude and (yeah, I’ll go there) backbone to utter sadness that…the GOP and their pundits seems to be calling the shots…AGAIN! It brings to light that maybe it’s time for even more of us to let the big guy know that we’re getting more than a little frustrated with him.

Understanding that it isn't easy being the one that everyone looks up to and counts on.

JMoore

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Monday August 22, 2011 · 10:19 PM PDT

2011/08/22 · 22:19

I can still remember that day I walked into a small polling place to vote for the first time. I had taken my grandmother to do “her civic duty” as she kept referring to it as. The whole ride there was filled with her lecturing me on the different aspects of this certain election and how important it was for our community, our country, our family and even myself that I take my responsibility seriously.

I smiled at her a lot that morning because she had no way of knowing that everything she was saying was already a very deep seeded part of my being, that her son…my father had in his own way given me a civic consciousness scattered out over the years with his lessons, his gifts of caring and sharing.

The dedication on the National Mall today brought one such lesson flooding back to me and as this is my first diary, I wanted to share a part of the man who made me who I am today.

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