My writing roots and my first book: “You’re Always 39”

A Starting Over At 60 Blog Since I was 8 years old, I knew I would be a writer. On the back porch, my father sat on the stoop, a bag of enormous frogs at his feet and an enormous skinning knife in his hand. His knee-length boots were caked in mud and marsh grass.ContinueContinue reading “My writing roots and my first book: “You’re Always 39””

Can you resist the patriarchy and follow today’s beauty standards?

A Starting Over at 60 Blog The other day I watched an Insta reel from a woman noting the return of skinny culture. Look at Sharon and Kelly Osborne, and their star-sought GLP-1-induced emaciation and you’ll see what she means. In numerous glamour shots, Sharon and Kelly pose, their gaunt cheeks and eyes betraying aContinueContinue reading “Can you resist the patriarchy and follow today’s beauty standards?”

White people don’t get it

A Surviving Facts Blog for Black History Month Please note: this blog in no ways intends to minimize the atrocities the Jewish people have experienced for millennia. Jews were slaves long before Africans were brought to America and were tortured by numerous societies before Hitler. I based my comments on the fact that Hitler studiedContinueContinue reading “White people don’t get it”