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Beyond the Birds and the Bees
There’s a fabulous new site called ” Beyond the Birds and The Bees”-it’s talking about sexuality, and children, and how we as parents handle it. If you’re like me, and wo… more →
Spin Me I Pulsate
Beyond the Birds and the Bees
thordora wrote 6 months ago: There’s a fabulous new site called ” Beyond the Birds and The Bees”-it’s tal … more →
"When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things."
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thordora wrote 8 months ago: When she’s gone my mind begins to fill up with all the things that can happen, slowly like I … more →
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
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thordora wrote 9 months ago: Most mornings, rain or shine, I walk Vivian the kilometre to her school, trudging with half shut eye … more →
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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thordora wrote 9 months ago: Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne’s So Sexy So Soon seeks to address this very type of childhood ex … more →
Carry Me
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Did she hold me now? Three hours ago? 12? Did they leave me in her room, snuffling, comatose little … more →
More than the sum of her womb.
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: You know what I’m sick of. I’m sick of this shit. Bitch, where’s your kids? Here … more →
1984, the years you stole.
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: stopped in the store, glaring white light she cries “Mommy! Cherries!” and a moment a sk … more →
"Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge and affirm that it is fitting and delicious to lose everything. "
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: I’m sitting in the waiting room to do my stress test, staring at an older woman, and a younger … more →
Living Color
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: In my head, they all merge into one woman. Graceful, creative, caring-they are everywoman-or perhaps … more →
4 Pink Pills
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Pretend for a minute that I’m holding 4 pills in my palm, 4 pale pink capsules containing th … more →
" A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power."
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: When I was 7 or 8, I was molested by my neighbour, a near quadriplegic, and his helper. This went on … more →
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: This year, this April marks 19 years without my mother. With her, but not with her. The dead never … more →
Stop Toying with Mothers-SUPPORT the Mother's Act
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Now, I’m not even American, and this is making me hot. As in PISSED OFF. Some of you might rem … more →
"Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness, dawn will not veil her splendor for your grief"
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: We’re eating breakfast when the news comes on the radio-two little girls to be buried today, a … more →
"there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: I open my reader and see that Heath Ledger is dead. I read the details-it sounds like a suicide atte … more →
Blog for Choice Day
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Going through my reader, Mad reminded me that it’s Blog for Choice day. I had no intention on … more →
"Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Often, I don’t think very nice things about myself. Maybe because I’m bipolar. Maybe bec … more →
I'm sorry Britney Spears.
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Who isn’t there honey? What caused that aching void that eats you up at night, that fills your … more →
Question on asshatery.
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thordora wrote 1 year ago: Is it more classist to -clear the sidewalks around the local low income housing days (i.e. a week) b … more →
