Araminta – I want to be like you.

“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” - Harriet Tubman One of my favorite …

Defunding Planned Parenthood

Have you called your senator, yet? I did. Session begins at 2pm. I told the staff member this: "I am calling to share my point of view as a citizen. Planned Parenthood has spun out of control. I do not think they should be funded by tax dollars. If private organizations want to keep it …

~Where the Earth Was Free From Sorrow~

We were traveling through Monroe, MI, and drove by an old Battlefield.  We pulled  over to have lunch there and began to read the historical markers. The River Raisin Battlefield was the site of one of largest engagements during the War of eighteen-twelve. The battle on January twenty-second, and the massacre on January twenty-third, in …

The Republicans can come along for the ride…..

Dear Mr. President,  Why do I have to sit in the back of the bus? Is it because I embrace what the Republican Party believes in? Would it help if I told you my Dad's side of the family came here only 50 years ago, that I am a Latina, that I am the first …