We’ve all seen the images. Constant and graphic, littering our Facebook feed and daily lives. Pictures of smiling hunters or psychopaths, gleefully and proudly displaying the results of their sick indifference, feelings and desires. Animal suffering of horrific degrees and the callous, noncomprehending audiences and consumers. These images, posted online, seem to be...
My Prayer for Peace
I’m in recovery from PTSD. Sometimes its hard. When fear and pain take over and reason and meaning leave you. It is at times like these I have learnt to pray. It helps. If you believe in God or good or neither, there is still a part of every heart that understands and feels...
The Abortion Debate
The abortion debate is not about those women and men who oppose abortion. It’s not about fetuses. It is about women, all women and those who support the right to choose and choose to have an abortion. Its their lives we are talking about, not the lives of women who oppose it. If you...
Dealing with Troll Culture
I used to love getting the Treehugger newsletter but the increasingly troll like responses made me decide to stop subscribing. It just took the joy out of it. I rarely read comments on news stories anymore or if I do, I quickly scroll through the plethora of hateful, stunningly stupid and stereotypical ones looking...
Feelings
Sometimes people just want you to roll with life, it or whatever it is, even if you can’t. Feelings are like a wheel. If normal and undamaged you can roll along nicely whatever the terrain. If they are damaged and warped then rolling along is difficult or even impossible. To get moving along you...
Ring the Alarm, Our World is Dying
I have been thinking alot lately about our economy and the general state of the world. Its crazy that we are living in a world where European countries are going bankrupt, and US cities as well. What does this say about our world, our economy, our leaders? It says alot. It proves austerity doesn’t...
The Fairy Diet
I love fairies and consider myself a fairy person in my flights of fancy. So after being inspired by a fellow vegan, fairy person on Twitter who is battling an eating disorder, I have came up with a diet that will hopefully satisfy my imagination as well as my appetite, as boredom is my...
One Tin Soldier Update
Growing up in the wholesome, yet free wheeling 1970s, I was able to enjoy many things that would seem unheard of, to those who grew up in the increasingly conservative, and extremist 1980s and 1990s. One of these things was great hippie songs and movies, like The Legend of Billy Jack and the song...
On Writing Your Memoir
I’m currently in the process of writing my memoir. This is a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I am also currently attending a memoir writing course at the University of Toronto. I am learning alot through it. I think its a good idea for any writer to take...
Self Help
I’m currently in a recovery process, and at a turning point in my life. To help me through both, and to keep me motivated, I read a lot of self help books. I have always found motivational and inspirational writing very powerful. This began in the early 1990s when I read “The Road Less...