Last weekend your fearless reporter was a first time delegate at the 2006 Maine Democratic Party Convention in Augusta. Before I describe the problem, it was a SPIRITED, COMMITTED, EXCITED group of Americans. We are determined to throw the rascals out. And may do it. Great to be with them. With ONE GLARING OMISSION the…
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On June 6th, 2005, the day before our 47th wedding anniversary I “bought the farm” on the floor of the cardiac rehab unit in Ellsworth. I woke up with an IV in each wrist and a strange nurse looking down into my face saying, “I just resuscitated you. Hope you don’t mind.” “Hey, that’s great,”…
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“When a woman says no to a man, she subliminally looks death in the face. Men have not only more physical strength”and the threat of that strength is always there, consciously or unconsciously” but in today’s society of inequality, men usually have more status and power than women. If women learn not to be afraid…
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