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I might point out that when speed is of the essence, such as when interpreting a speaker -- And you have not gotten an advance copy of the speech -- It is difficult, if not impossible, to do all of these changes. It is the difference between translating and transliterating when interpreting...

Bah! Can't seem to get any of the media to play. Looks good though.

I was raised tribal. No one is tossed out, everyone pitches in. Those who contribute to the group receive from the group. My mother and I always had keys to each others houses and made ourselves at home in whatever house we were. Who lived with whom was a question that seldom had a clear cut...

My mother never turned me away from her door for any reason and I won't turn away one of my children without extreme reasons -- and those are not limited to "blood" children. If they grew up loving me and calling me Dad, they are mine. There is room for them somewhere. I have a 7 rules: I...

At times I am a bit of an ass. I am not a bandage. I cannot solve your problem and I won't keep patching it. This is not a skinned knee. You have to grow up. Some day I may be old and have to rely on you. Your children will have to rely on you until they grow up and become strong. You...

No, I didn't. I am a halfbreed, remember? My mother was raised by whites. I wasn't. When she took up with another Indian they felt she had "reverted to type." It was not my environment. It was the WASP environment I was exposed to. Of course now the general attitude towards Indians is no...

I never doubted you would say the same to a hearie. But you are apt to receive a similar response as my 14 year old grand daughter gave when told by a secretary, "Young lady, you need anger management classes." To which she replied, "You're damn right I do. Are you ready to take me...

I don't expect you to ever watch George Carlin, but in his early comedy he broke the cultural differences between WASPS and Blacks of the time to the bone. Gone With The Wind gives a pretty good lesson of what a lady should be like, partly because Scarlett resisted being one so well. My mother...

I can't remember dates, or things like the names of streets, or addresses. But when I went back to San Francisco I was able to walk to the apartment house my mother and I had lived in almost 60 years before.

Gotta love the bolded part.

I have tried to decide what bothers me the most about this story. To me telling an impressionable child that "God approves" has to be the most unconscionable act a preacher could do.

Glad I was there!

Being a latchkey kid doesn't lead to debauchery any more than having access to drugs or alcohol makes one a drug addict or an alcoholic or cigarettes a smoker. I've had access to all of them my entire life. I've never smoked or done drugs and I drink very little. (I'd drink more but I keep...

I was talking about the 50's on through the 60's. I wasn't a hippie either. Not because I had so all fired much respect for myself, but because I couldn't adhere to their "turn the other cheek" attitude. I always admired their ability to do what Christians claimed was Christ like, never...

Oh, yes. They were strict. And yes, teachers had to supervise and censor what the kids were reading, not just "Candy" either -- No science fiction, no fantasy, yada yada yada. Strict included clothing: Boys had to have "White walls" around their ears, even if they were black kids. It was...

One of my daughters asked a doctor, "Is it true if I keep my knees together I won't get pregnant?" He responded, "It certainly is, young lady." "Oh, goody," she said. "Does it matter which side I lay on?"

And in those days there were whaling captains, and a tiny few did take their wives. One captain's wife died after giving birth. And when he steered into port, he was holding the mast with one hand, and holding his nursing baby to his breast with the other. In emergencies men can, and have...

Sisters, mothers, friends. True. We took care of our own problems back then. The ones who were successfully harassed by bosses or others were those who had no one to take up for them. Are you kidding? I was alive then. Everybody was screwing, or talking about screwing. We thought the...

And THAT is the truth.

No, I was not talking about schools, although teachers and many kids in school held similar attitudes. You were not actually told to "Act White" you were told to "act like ladies and gentlemen" and other races, nationalities, were disparaged for not doing it. You may have grown up in the...