Remember the dictum “Never trust anyone over thirty?” I hated that, since I was in my thirties during the big Sixties hoo-haw. By that time I had worked full time in campaigns and during the seventies was even getting paid to do what I had done as a volunteer. So I thought I knew something [...]
Some Days I Feel Like Cassandra
So much has happened since I wrote my blog on February 13 in the mist of the Susan Komen controversy I am literally out of breath. My analogy of the motor boat was apt, but right now it looks like a jet plane is about to take off in the other direction. At least, I hope so. [...]
Virgin Hall Published, Janet Goes on the Road
What a month January was! Virgin Hall made its initial debut at Full Circle Book Store in Oklahoma City. Full Circle, owned by Jim Tolbert, is one of those wonderful, chock-full-o-books stores with fireplaces, good coffee, and a café manned by people who know what’s between the covers. Since OKC is my home town, the [...]
Abortion, Public Policy & the Consequences of Myopic Focus
The publicity surrounding the support of Planned Parenthood by the Susan G. Komen Foundation brings into stark reality the truth pro-abortion/anti-abortion controversy. In that form it doesn’t exist. No one is pro-abortion. It is always a last and often desperate option. The revulsion, whether religiously inspired or not, toward the act is fully understandable. In [...]
Where Are We Now?
For women like me, who came to maturity before the 1960s, the specter of illegal and unsafe abortion is as much of a horror as the reaction of those who view a terminated pregnancy as murder. In those days there was no “pill” and the only means of obtaining a contraceptive device was through a [...]
The Word Plastic
Every once in a while I meditate on the word plastic. I always want to pronounce it the way the French do, plastique. This in turn brings up an image of some sort of gooey gel used to blow things up. Plastic—malleable, easily formed—that was the original meaning of the word and somehow it has [...]
