Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were exonerated of a sociopathic style murder of Meredith Kercher by an Italian Appellate Court on October 3rd, 2011. Part 1: Sociopath Outlined Part 2: Society’s Responsibility to Correct Injustice Part 3: Circumstantial Evidence Part 4: Final Supreme Court Ruling Part 5: Dehumanization of Amanda Knox Part 6: […]
Santa Economics Is A Great Thing, Says “Real- Bearded” Santa
An interview with Scott Lannan, The Santa Movement visionary Scott Lannan functions as what he terms, "a real- bearded "Santa in several communities, but it was not until he was on the job in Aruba, that he had an epiphany. " I received the Santa suit at my grandmother’s funeral from an aunt around […]
Yom Kippur, 10th Century – Why would a Unitarian always celebrate Yom Kippur?
Fiction excerpt is from the historical time-travel with acupuncture needles novels of Anne Hart. Read this entire story in the book: Who’s Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying? or the novel, Adventures in my beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond. Yom Kippur, Bethlehem, July 985 AD Yom Kippur means to me a time […]
The Story of American President Barack Obama’s Mother
Obama’s Mother Story Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama’s mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a […]
Poetry and Spanish Permanent Links for Sahrawi Culture
Posted by Renata Avila to Global Voices Online For some cultures, it is food, for others it is music, and many cultures show their character in their architecture. For Western Sahara, one of their cultural characteristics is the oral tradition, and poetry is meaningful for Sahrawis. This literature becomes a large part of their lives. […]
The Gathering:A DISTURBING AND DIFFICULT GATHERING OF EMOTIONS AND MEMORIES
The blurb says that The Gathering is a family epic. However to call the Gathering a family epic would be erroneous. It is about memories between a brother and a sister, but more importantly it is about memories and fears. Veronica is eight years old when she witnesses abuse of her brother Liam at the […]