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Roosting Chickens

Sunday morning is my time to take the time to reflect on my life. Today, because I have so many kind, genuinely good people in my life. I wondered how I got so lucky. I HOPE it wasn’t luck but something more in my control: consequences. Since I was a kid, I was taught by my Granny that the Bible tells us, “You reap what you sow.” My Mama told me that my habits dictated the quality of my…

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It’s Not About The Babies

With Republicans it’s not about saving babies. It’s about men controlling women, using abortion as a cover: Criminalizing acts by women (just women, not men) as a way to instill fear and compliance. Criminalizing abortion for ANY reason. Forced birth with only the woman held responsible for the pregnancy, keeping her at a financial and employment disadvantage and possibly dependent on men or…

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Trump Has Said He Will Be A Dictator

trump has openly said he will be a dictator. Dictators:🔴 Kill political opponents.🔴 Kill people who say anything against them or the way they rule.🔴 Kill family members of people who voice disagreement.🔴 Implement strict gun ownership laws.🔴 Funnel workers’ money into their and their oligarchs’ pockets.🔴 Control food supplies to control people.🔴 Control heat for homes to control the people.🔴…

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I’m Going In

Hi.I’m Jacki and I’m an introvert. Whew. I said that out loud. It has always been easier for me to come out of the lesbian closet than to come out of the introvert closet. At least being a lesbian – an OUT lesbian – comes with an assumption from introverts and extroverts alike that I have some degree of extroverted assertiveness. And they are right… to some degree. In my younger days, I was…

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After Midnight

It was after midnight and sleep was nowhere to be found. My mind was holding sleep hostage. It was a cyclone spinning underpinning questions about my life. Who am I as opposed to who I think I SHOULD be? Am I a good person? What truly makes me happy? How do I want to be remembered as opposed to how I think I will be remembered? I wrestled with my mind and my pillow for hours. It was worth…

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Unconditional Love

I see a lot of posts about the only real love is unconditional love. Well, I believe otherwise. Everything in life has conditions, has a price, and usually requires compromise. And that’s a good thing. Most of our life is lived between the extremes. And if you don’t have an investment, a price you pay, you value it less. I see mature love as sharing foundation values of respect, honesty,…

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Almost Arrested

Circa 1990. The day I came very close to being arrested. Anita Bryant was in town and several of us AIDS activists protested her visit because of her hateful, self-serving, ignorant, and dangerous rhetoric about AIDS. It was peaceful but as we walked and chanted alongside the narrow, busy highway, the Williamson County deputy was walking backward in front of me, telling us to disburse and that…

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Banned Books Hurt Everyone

Dear MAGA: When I was a young child and heard in Sunday School that God hates queers and that Jesus said they were the worst people on earth, a book explaining that every person, no matter who they love, has dignity and worth and is loved by God would have been a good foundation for me. When I was in third grade and had a best friend who was a girl who I wanted to marry and felt I was, uh…

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I Stand With Creatives

Yes, there are many wealthy actors but the VAST majority are barely eeking by. Literally. It’s like the NFL. There are a lot of rich ballers but the vast majority are eeking by or never make it. The writers are in an even worse position, most holding down “day jobs” while writing for the entertainment industry as a side gig. They are already struggling but the ultra-wealthy executives want to…

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MAGA Immigration

I’m honestly confused by MAGA who swear on their AR15s they will leave the US if trump is convicted. So many questions. First, I assume that most MAGA are not filthy rich. Yet they can afford to leave their jobs, uproot their family, and move to a new country? How? Become nomads? Wouldn’t moving to a new country make them immigrants? That’s some stone cold irony there. And which new countries…

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Ban Assault Rifles NOW

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s and Tennessee Republicans’ firearm regulation proposals are weak and virtually ineffective. They are nothing more than political theater. Yes, we do need red flag laws and stronger background checks but many killers have no signs that would be caught by these safeguards. Many purchased their murder weapons legally. Many had no official record of making threats or…

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Legacy

Thinking about Jimmy Carter this morning. As one ages, we become more aware of the legacy we will leave when we are no longer here. What special mark on the world and other people will we leave? Will it be a blessing or a curse? We wonder will anyone care when we pass. Did we lead a life people will remember fondly or even remember at all? Who will miss us when we are gone? Who will…

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I’m Black!

I’M BLACK!And YOU may be, too! Happy Black History Month! According to the One-Drop Rule, just a single drop of Black blood in your DNA or a single Black ancestor in your thousands of ancestors, technically defines you as “Black”. Have you taken a DNA test? Do you dare take a DNA test lest you find out something you didn’t know about yourself? My DNA tests (two of them) concur that I have…

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Ramblings of an old hippie.

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To All My Giver Friends

To All My Giver Friends

Every morning, after feeding my furry babies, I jump on Facebook and scroll through my timeline. And morning after morning, I am almost brought to tears, or literally brought to tears, by the kindness and basic goodness of some of my Facebook friends.

It particularly struck me this morning because one of my friends was involved in an automobile accident while transporting some rescued dogs to a…

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Five Questions for Author Jacki Moss

Five Questions for Author Jacki Moss

Jacki Moss is author of With A Bullet, the first book in the Music City Mysteries.

QUESTION 1: Since With A Bullet is set in the Deep South and Nashville, is it Southern Lit?

JACKI: Absolutely! I don’t know how With A Bullet could get any more Southern. I was born in Atlanta, grew up in the Deep South, the locale of the book is Southern, and it’s based on Southern characters. I wouldn’t know how…