Justice | Justice
Jul.18.2011
Republican presidential candidate, and tea party member, Herman Cain shows us that you do not have to be white to be racist. Cain is an African American businessman and Baptist minister who is also featured occasionally in tea party adds to counteract allegations of racism in the tea party. Since...
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Jun.22.2011
The summer solstice has passed, the longest day marks the official start of the warmest season in this part of the world. Canadians will be drinking on summer patios, dancing under the stars at folk festivals, holding family gatherings at lakeside cottages, cheering for their team at football games...
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May.18.2011
Here is an interview on how judicial elections can help, and possibly hurt, minorities.
http://diverseeducation.com/article/15306/
It was late on Election Day 2010 and Vander Plaats, a Sioux City, Iowa, businessman and leader of a campaign to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices, had...
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May.07.2011
Since I write crime novels, aka mysteries, people ask me where I get my ideas. They come so fast I have to duck. When I lived for nearly twenty years on Lake Wanapitei north of Sudbury, the first neighbour I met was a lonely man about fifty with a gorgeous property at the end of the road. Rumour...
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Mar.31.2011
I read with great interest memoirs that share an author's trauma, but I understand this is not for everyone. It's important that we, as readers, know our capacity for sensitive material. Anyone who's been traumatized carries a wound, and the writer has no way of knowing how deep it runs or the...
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Mar.29.2011
In a recent conversation with my hubby, as always The Master comes through with words of wisdom that pour from my mouth and I am left to ponder them for sometime afterwards. These pearls of wisdom are usually accompanied by clues from outside sources and this was no exception.
I was talking to Jon...
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Mar.19.2011
As you know if you’ve been following my blog –I haven’t been blogging lately since I took up my new book project. Consequently, this week I decided to share a chapter from my published book, Darkness Overturned. From Chapter Six:
The bakery was located on an Indian reservation, and in the night...
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Feb.13.2011
Should I have expectations or keep hold of hope? Expectations are bound to disappoint while hope can strengthen a weary heart. But then as Proverbs points out, “hope deferred makes the heart sick”.
Shall I continue to seek out safe places in this world or should I seek to be one?
It is said that...
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Jan.14.2011
The era of self-publishing has arrived. With the advent of the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad and other e-reader devices, authors all around the world have the opportunity to get their work out into the public eye. At last, there is a functional way to be published without the scrutiny of publishing...
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Jan.13.2011
This issue has confused me a great deal. The outrage I felt when the news broke affected me deeply. I saw our country fall apart in front of my eyes. I remember in ’08, when President Obama was elected, hearing the threats and cries of outrage coming from the extreme right and I thought how...
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