Category Archives: aging

Standing Rock: the effects of colonization/ los efectos de la colonización

Posted on January 13, 2017 by silviantonia

This is a bilingual post. Este es un artículo bilingüe. After sleeping 12 hours, reading Emma Goldman for one hour at 2 in the morning, and sleeping for another 4 hours, I am finally up. I have been thinking, for … Continue reading →

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Women hold up half the sky… a meditation on women’s rights and issues

Posted on February 13, 2016 by silviantonia

We are living in a world that is ever more disrespectful and abusive of women’s rights and issues.  In our current scene of politicians who pander to the lowest common denominator to blast and blaspheme against the birthing half of humanity, … Continue reading →

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Empathy and compassion

Posted on February 4, 2016 by silviantonia

Yesterday I went to bring papers to the widow I have been helping.  After twenty-nine years of marriage to an abusive husband, a marriage in which she stayed in obedience to her marriage vows, as she is a fervent Catholic, … Continue reading →

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It’s me, with a touch of bathos? Pathos?

Posted on March 13, 2015 by silviantonia

Today I feel like the character that John Lithgow played ever so well in Third Rock from the Sun, which for years was my favorite comedy in the whole wide world! He was alternately self-satisfied and poignantly narcissistic, with a … Continue reading →

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