Welcome to my blog about ”What Moves Me”
Writer, humanist,
dog-mom,
horse-servant,
and cat-slave.
Lover of solitude
and the company of good friends.
New places,
new ideas,
and old wisdom.
Tag Archives: writing
The Future of Struggle
“Struggle” is not a word I naturally embrace. I recently posted this: My housekeeping style can be summed up in 7 words: “There appears to have been a struggle.” Okay, I stole that from a dish towel in a gift … Continue reading
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Tagged A.I., AI, Art, artificial-intelligence, creativity, Israel, Struggle, T.K. Thorne, writing
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People are a Lot More
“People are a lot more than their political inclination.” I read that statement today in a Washington Post article about an older man who found happiness in a wildly diverse group of coffee drinkers at a local café. People came … Continue reading
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Tagged Happiness, History, life, love, politics, Sisterhood, writing
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Women: Not So Mere
Who knew? The women’s movement to win the vote in the United States (which didn’t happen until 1920) began with book clubs!* In my life, “feminism” has been a word often expressed with a sneer, the struggle for equality seen … Continue reading
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Tagged bookclubs, books, feminism, League of Women Voters, strong women, suffrage, women, Women' rights, writing
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Three
Three is a magic number. Can you hear your mother counting down the time left until unnamed but dreadful forces will compel you to do what you haven’t done yet? Your personality might have made you immediately hop to at … Continue reading
When Walls and Water Speak
One day, I looked at an area along the brick walkway in the front of my house and realized I needed to do something extreme. Despite having spread grass seeds more than one season, only weeds grew in the shadow … Continue reading
Goddess in the Garden
The last few weeks (during the heat spell, of course), I’ve spent on my knees with copious streams of perspiration running down my face (or as the Southern phrase goes, “sweating like a stuck pig”). A few years ago, I … Continue reading
The Paintbrush and the Pen
During the pandemic I edited several books and started two novels, both of which seem stuck somewhere near the beginning and are sitting around waiting for me. I don’t know if it was the stress of the year or I … Continue reading
Watch Out for Falling Heroes
Heroes have toppled under the sledgehammer of truth. Continue reading
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Tagged ban books, books, confederate statues, Dr. Seuss, Ezra Pound, Gandhi, Gertrude Stein, Gone with the Wind, Heroes, Hitler, Huckleberry Finn, JK Rowling, John F. Kennedy, John Wayne, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Nixon, Sean Connery, T.S. Elliot, Tom Sawyer, Wizard of Oz, writing
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Women: Not So Mere
Who knew? The women’s movement to win the vote in the United States (which didn’t happen until 1920) began with book clubs!* In my life, “feminism” has been a word often expressed with a sneer, the struggle for equality seen … Continue reading
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Tagged bookclubs, books, feminism, League of Women Voters, strong women, suffrage, women, Women' rights, writing
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Murder, Mayhem . . . and a little Magic
When Officer Rose Brighton chased a suspect down an alley in Birmingham, Alabama, she had no idea the next few minutes would land her in the middle of every cop’s nightmare—looking down at the body of someone she shot . … Continue reading
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Tagged author, brain, conscious, deep intelligence, House of Rose, Magic City, subconscious, T.K.Thorne, TK Thorne, writing
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