Some of This is My Fault

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Monday February 27, 2023 · 6:05 PM PST

2023/02/27 · 18:05

Some of this is all my fault. I just kept reading content here and scrolled by the pleas for financial support. I am not wealthy, but perhaps had I spared what I am currently spending to subscribe to my dying local paper, it would not have come to layoffs. I am sorry for failing some of the excellent journalists here, and hope that I can do better in the future.

Honoring Humayun Khan

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Monday August 08, 2016 · 9:52 AM PDT

2016/08/08 · 09:52

There is a very moving piece in USA Today by a young man from Virginia who also belongs to a Gold Star family. I am a rather inept diarist, so I won’t try quote much of the piece, but it ends with this:

“I pray that we see them as not only wearing the same uniform, and belonging to the same country, but as equal members in our human family.”

I know most of you will find this story compelling. I wish those folks now vilifying the Khans would also do so.

www.usatoday.com/…

I hope the link works.

My Abortion Story

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Friday November 08, 2013 · 6:07 AM PST

2013/11/08 · 06:07

I've read several diaries here from women who bravely told their abortion stories, how they arrived at their decision, how they felt afterwards, how they feel years later. I want to share mine. While I've always been pro-choice, I never had to make the choice until 1997, the choice was mine, I owned it, and I defy anyone who would interfere with my right to make it. I am a woman of spotty fertility. I married a man who brought with him a son. We had a son together in 1982, and then..nothing. I always wanted a large family but seemingly was incapable of actually hatching one, so I flirted with infertility treatment, gave up, and concentrated on raising the children I had. When our youngest was sixteen, I turned up pregnant. I thought it was the change of life when my periods stopped. I was in my forties and really thought that ship had sailed. Yet there I was, really truly pregnant and fourteen weeks so by the time I had it confirmed.

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