Poet, Activist, Humanist
Doann Houghton-Alico We have met the enemy, and he is us (and U.S.) [Thanks to Walt Kelly and Pogo] Most of the residents of the United States (not to mention the world at large), whether north, south, east, or west, red or blue have felt the impacts of climate change. As individuals we have to take some … Read more
The SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was no surprise after the leaked memo last month. Nevertheless, it is heartbreaking. It is impossible to know how many deaths of women and their fetuses occurred before Roe v Wade became the law of the land in 1973 because many happened to marginalized women in the … Read more
Do you wonder why Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery and emancipation for the thousands of Blacks held in that inhumane and inhuman condition some 2 ½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation? The date celebrated is June 19, 1865 when Army Major Gordan Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and announced that Texas slaves were now … Read more
As I mulled over where to go for science-based, practical, factual solutions and what to include in this post, I kept coming up with the word survival, rather than solutions. So I decided to look up the origins of both words, unable to avoid my going off on one of my tangents to explore phrases … Read more
Plutarch, Sophocles, and Shakespeare all wrote about what can happen to the bearer of bad news. Nevertheless, I will tempt this fate. Not only have I warned about the end of democracy, but now the end of civilization and the biosphere in which we live. Wait, all is NOT lost. First a brief history lesson … Read more