Tag: Family Separation

Friday Round-Up: Ricochet

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

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I bubbled up with grief at the news of Justice Kennedy resigning. The 5th vote on 5 to 4 decisions that kept choice legal would now be gone, replaced by a 5th on the other side. Access to legal abortion, a fundamental right of… Continue Reading “Friday Round-Up: Ricochet”

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Unforgivable

Posted on June 16, 2018 by

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The kids in the orphanage in Nicaragua where we adopted three children didn’t cry. They’d already done their crying someplace else. They might have looked concerned but they didn’t cry when passed from one person to the next like a bowl of mashed potatoes… Continue Reading “Unforgivable”

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What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

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