Tag Archives: Language

Liberal or Conservative or What?

So I consider myself a liberal (or as they term it today a progressive) but every now and then my thinking shifts a little to the right. Nothing too typically conservative but just a meld of mild conservatism mixed in with what I … Continue reading

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It Dog!

My sister-in-law died this past Sunday.  I wasn’t very close to her but I do feel the sting of the loss. I probably wouldn’t have even known she was in a such a bad state or even dying if it hadn’t … Continue reading

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Losing My Identity

I cannot pretend that just because I was born there and have ancestry there (unlike so many Americans with their kilts, dashikis, agbadas, turbins, burkas, hijabs, ushankas, saris, or regalias who “pretend” to be something other than American) despite the fact that I was born German, my mother was from Germany, I have a German government birth certificate (as well as an American birth certificate) I don’t try to force my “German culture” down the throats of Americans. Continue reading

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