Month: February 2018
The Other Closet: Living With the Stigma of Mental Illness
From the Motley Moose Archives … (Photobucket images are no longer available and have been downsized) I have touched on the topic of stigma against the mentally ill before, so I’m taking bits and pieces […]
The Columbia River Rolling Into the Pacific Ocean -Part 2,
We left off in Part 1 at Celilo Falls and The Dalles Dam, the last dam before the river meets the ocean. This remaining portion of the river’s journey is also spectacular although the landscape takes on […]
Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 25th through Mar. 3rd
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
Fighting Back: #NeverAgain – “We are tired of hearing it is too soon. It’s time.”
The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida). (Congressman Ted Deutch, representing Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, home to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, speaks on gun control) […]
A diary about positive things (& raising money for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS)
I’ve been keeping my head down lately, because my heart cannot take any more negativity. There’s all the awfulness in the world, and then my best friend is in hospice with the nth recurrence of brain cancer. […]
HNV Tuesday – Speaking Her Truth: Diane Nash (1938- )
Years later though she could recall almost every physical detail of what it had been like to sit there in that course on English literature, Diane Nash could remember nothing of what Professor Robert Hayden […]
Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 18th through Feb. 24th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
“Roll on Columbia” The River that Drains the Pacific Northwest – Part I
I grew up along this river in the Tri-City area and have had occasion to travel along much if its1,200 mile course from British Columbia to its mouth where it joins the Pacific Ocean. The Columbia River […]