Or how I came to fall in love with my husband and start our family on solid ground — I had hoped, when I married Larry 20 years ago, that one of our children would inherit his magnificent hair, so voluptuous and appealing that just putting your fingers in it communicated a sense of abundance, of largesse. But none did. Rose has medium-thick hair to which she periodically applies…

November’s Newsletter is on sharing our good gifts — This newsletter went out to subscribers on Nov. 27, 2023. I’m copying it into a “story” here so I can place it on our home page and non-subscribers can read it, too. It doesn’t look quite as pretty here (no text colors), but if you want to see the prettier…

How Fourth Wave is warming and informing our world — I don’t really believe in astrology, but I still read my horoscope now and then. My preferred astrologer is Rob Bresny via his Free Will Astrology site because he’s profound. I often get horoscopes from him that I feel like quoting. As an Aquarius, here’s my latest: I estimate this…

And a Native American story is whitewashed once again — My friend told me I had to see Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, calling it cinematically beautiful and historically important and narratively compelling and generally well done. Also violent, as Scorsese films always are. And that last part gave me pause, along with the three-and-a-half-hour run…

What constitutes identity? — My adult son has a major mental illness which he developed at age 18 — the normal age that men develop this disease. Women typically get it a little later. Prior to that, he had a particular personality and behaved a certain way. Afterwards, he behaved differently. I remember the…

Hey, Baby. I find you supremely powerful and very exciting. Do you want to hang out? — If the Medium algorithm had a name, what would it be? Alma, perhaps? That means soul in Spanish. And isn’t the algorithm the soul of this platform, after all? Its driving force? Or maybe Alice, who takes us down a rabbit hole, which surely happens here. How about Alaia? Think…

Fourth Wave’s Honor Scroll — Life changed for me when I was accepted as a boost nominator on Medium. Suddenly I had the power to bring fame and fortune to Fourth Wave contributors! Or so I thought. But that isn’t really how it works. For one thing, there’s a limit to the number of stories…

Abortion bans are not about religion, but making women weak — The GOP’s new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants gays back in the closet and women back in the kitchen, but that’s not because he’s a “Christian,” whatever that means these days (certainly nothing to do with Jesus Christ). …

So why are we letting them ruin our attempt at a free country? — I read a story recently about how white women are ruining everything. Actually, it was about one dumb white woman getting trashed on the-site-formerly-known-as-Twitter for being surprised when her menfolk threw her under the bus even after she fought hard against feminism and abortion and for “traditional values.” Poor thing. …