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Perilous times: an inside look at abortion before- and after- Roe v. Wade

Perilous times: an inside look at abortion before- and after- Roe v. Wade

A gripping overview, in storyteller form, of abortion from its historic beginnings to the perilous times of today’s threatened reproductive rights.

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Sep 20, 2022

Nighttime in the Lonely City

Kindness and despair: A photo essay

Nighttime in the Lonely City

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Aug 30, 2022

10 Steps to a Guaranteed Good Day

Observations of an Octogenarian Optimist

10 Steps to a Guaranteed Good Day

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Jul 27, 2022

Wait! We’re so smart? How about the Greeks and Romans and their urbane compatriots?

The sky is falling! Breaking news! Our fragile democracy in peril!!

Wait! We’re so smart? How about the Greeks and Romans and their urbane compatriots?

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Jul 17, 2022

Dying in Pain — or Comfort?

This essay appears on the blog page of End of Life Choices CA, a nonprofit which I am proud to serve as a volunteer and board member…

Dying in Pain — or Comfort?

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Jul 5, 2022

Abortion Pre-Roe: A Survivor’s Story

Nearly 70 years ago I survived an amateur abortion. On a kitchen table in a drab house in a down-at-the-heels neighborhood of Atlanta…

Abortion Pre-Roe: A Survivor’s Story

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Taking My Husband’s Ashes Home

A perilous, nostalgic, occasionally hilarious journey to Cornwall

Taking My Husband’s Ashes Home

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I Think I Fell Through the Rabbit Hole

Up is Down, Left is Right, and we are not in Wonderland

I Think I Fell Through the Rabbit Hole

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Conflicted Feelings on July 4th

Independence Day #250 might be a good time to reflect — and recalibrate

Conflicted Feelings on July 4th

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Jun 29

The USA Through British Eyes

A few days of being Americans abroad . . . and seeing ourselves as the world now sees us.

The USA Through British Eyes

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Jun 22

Roots Are Where You Spread Them

Do we ever really identify that homeward tug?

Roots Are Where You Spread Them

FranMorelandJohns

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Lifelong newspaper & magazine writer, author, blogger at franjohns.net, agitator for justice, kindness & interfaith understanding.

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