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Living With A Wild God

March 30, 2018
by Caroline Miller
altered mind states, Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God
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In August, I read a review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Living with a Wild God. (Blog 8/11/14)  The work centers around an experience in her early life which she describes as a shift in her level of consciousness.  Having had a similar experience in my 40s, I decided to get m
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Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman

March 29, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Drew Gilpin Faust, Saudi Arabian women drivers, Sheikh Saleh bin Saari al-Lohidan, Terry O'Neil, women breaking male taboos
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man carving female image
Tomorrow, October 26, women of Saudi Arabia will take to the streets in their cars in a mass protest against the taboo that forbids them from driving. The current prohibition isn’t a matter of Islamic law. What women are facing is a long held prejudice that presumes driving is a pri
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A New Kind Of Choice

March 28, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Bohras, cultural rape, It Happens Here, khatna, Occupied Territory, Rebecca Solnit, Sahiya, Tasneem Raja, violence against women
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Female genital cutting (khatna) is alive and well in the United States, even though it was outlawed in 1996. (“It Happens Here,” by Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones, July, August, 2017 ,pgs. 13-15.)  It survives because women, largely of the Muslim Bohras sect, (Click) protect the
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Fools Never Wonder

March 27, 2018
by Caroline Miller
building cultural walls, civil rights and civility, cultural appropriation, D.Trump rolls back services for minorities, Marco Huete
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At a party years ago in Tanganyika, (Tanzania) a newly elected Nigerian official sat to my left at dinner.   During the course of the meal, he leaned in my direction with a furrowed brow. “Tell me, in a democracy, when one party wins an election. why does it tolerate the e
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Do Not Look Back With Disdain

March 26, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Abortive Reasoning, economic arguments for abortion, Eugeia Williamson, Hillary Clinton, the new feminism, Yasmin Nair
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Understand, there are decades between me and the new arrivals to feminism. I’ve welcomed the Baby Boomers, the Gen Xers and now the Millennials.  Each generation interprets the movement according to its values.  For a time, there were those who thought being called a “fe
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Hope And Dreams

March 23, 2018
by Caroline Miller
American drug culture, American values out of sync, disillusioned Americans, drug trafficking, Michael Brandon Dougherty, Mo Gawdat, pursuit of happiness
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Recently, I came across a line in a news report that gave me pause.  “Mexican drug cartels earn some $25 billion selling drugs in the U. S.A.” (“The World at a glance…” The Week, May 19, 2017, pg. 8.) Add the profit from the Middle East drug trade and the sum doubles, e
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“Let’s Have Lunch” — The Most Terrifying Words To My Ears

March 22, 2018
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", A beter way to work, Alex Soojun-Kim Pang, Darwin, Dickens, focus, how to be most productive as a thinker, mindfulness, Susan Stoner
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Let me tell you about my work day. I do so because I wish to make a point. My mornings begin at my computer, preferably before 10 am. I practice this ritual  7 days a week.  Monday through Friday,  I compose essays that will appear later as one of my blogs. Composing oc
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Wish Upon A Star Because It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over

March 21, 2018
by Caroline Miller
facing retirement, how to give meaning to retirement, Nancy Schlossberg, Too Young to be Old, what do you want to do when you grow old?
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“What do you want to do when you grow up?”  The question is one we often ask children, but how often do we hear an equally important question asked of those facing retirement?  “What do you want to do as you grow old?”  The question never occurred to my father a
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Flying Solo And How To Enjoy It

March 20, 2018
by Caroline Miller
disability insurance while working, Elizabeth O'Brien, Four Tips for Going Solo, how singles should prepare for retirement, long term disability insurance
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A former student came to visit me at the retirement center this week.  As we sat down over coffee he managed a cheerful, “Wow, for 81, you look great.”  I gulped twice. First, I wasn’t  81 and second, I hate that caveat, “for your age.”  At almost 81, it
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The Jangmadang Generation

March 19, 2018
by Caroline Miller
jangmadang generation, Jieun Baek, private markets in North Korea, The Opening of the North Korean Mind, western contraband reaches North Korea
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During the North Korean famine  between 1994-1998, the government, unable to feed its people, allowed private markets to spring up so that individuals could buy, sell or barter among themselves for basic goods.  This small, capitalistic experiment, called jangmadang, was so
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