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Every December 1, for 14 years, I have sent out a newsletter with information about World AIDS Day. If you want a copy of this year’s newsletter, please e-mail me at becky@beckycochrane.com. Please specify if you want the newsletter attached as a Word file, or if you would prefer to read the information in the body of my e-mail.
Thanks–and please wear a red ribbon on December 1 in memory of all those lost to HIV/AIDS and to recognize all those living with HIV/AIDS.
In a couple of weeks, it’ll have been a year since I began this Live Journal. Maybe I’ll do some sentimental recap about what I’ve learned or accomplished over that year. Or maybe I’ll talk about all the fantastic people I’ve come to know through Live Journal. I’ll try to say something profound to mark the occasion.
But I have to be honest. The thing that stays in my mind the most is the biggest disappointment that I’ve suffered through Live Journal, and it has lingered for nine months. People have had babies in nine months. They’ve gone through kindergarten/last year of high school/last year of college in nine months.
Continue reading “Contemplating the anniversary”
Since it’s Veterans Day, I’m going to go ahead and post about Jane Fonda’s book even though I planned to wait until after I finished it. Which I almost have.
Continue reading “Veterans Day”
A friend from the suburbs with three kids and a busy life takes the time to let you know she early voted and voted AGAINST Prop 2 because she believes in equality for all people.
Continue reading “Sometimes when you feel blue…”
You get the government you deserve. That’s the crappiest truism ever, because it means people who really don’t deserve it get it, too.
For anyone unaware, here’s the rundown on Texas’s just-passed Proposition 2.
Continue reading “You know what they say…”
…and you don’t vote NO on Proposition 2:
Continue reading “If you live in Texas…”
As the Neville Brothers sang:
Thank you, Miss Rosa, you are the spark
You started our freedom movement
Thank you, Sister Rosa Parks.
Has anyone read What We Do Now, and if so, is it worth reading? There must be some ways to get this country headed in the right direction. ‘Cause I’m STILL worried about the same things I was worried about this time last year. And the year before… And the year before…
Dear Karen Markham:
I am a straight person in Texas and that makes me reluctant to respond to your letter. Not because what happens in Maine is none of my business and my state certainly has enough issues of its own to trouble me. But because, like you, when I hear a generalization that I question, I like to confirm it by going to a source that might have firsthand experience that can refute or support it.
Continue reading ““A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Martin Luther King”
Thanks, Rhonda, for bringing this article to my attention. It is heartening when someone goes against what sadly seems to be the Texas norm and speaks out for justice.