I don’t know what it is about dogs and why we love them so fiercely, or why we can’t go about our lives without them. I know that I can’t seem to find my compass without a dog in my life. My dog companions enable me to map the territory of the heart, and when …
Monthly Archives: March 2019
That Old Dixie Flag Revised
Donna Dufresne I love the Quiet Corner of Connecticut – the soft, rolling hills dotted with farms, the little villages accented by white steeples and general stores, the pockets of a rural past. In fact, when I first came to this part of the state, I immediately felt at home. I befriended a series …
That Old Dixie Flag
Donna Dufresne I love the Quiet Corner of Connecticut – the soft, rolling hills dotted with farms, the little villages accented by white steeples and general stores, the pockets of a rural past. In fact, when I first came to this part of the state, I immediately felt at home. I befriended a series …
HATE IS NOT PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION
Donna Dufresne Hate is not protected by the Constitution, any more than the right to kill people with semi-automatic weapons. The confederate flag and confederate statues, although historical relics, are more a reminder of hatred, racism and treason than a reverence for the past. Their presence in public spaces is offensive to anyone who holds …
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SILENCE IS COMPLICITY
Donna Dufresne Silence is complicity when it comes to hateful rhetoric. Donald Trump IS responsible for the crazy fools who act out his hateful, white supremacist, and racist speeches. And it is downright DEPLORABLE that his so-called base can’t take a break from their hatefulness, to mourn the deaths of people of faith who were …
HOW TO DESTROY A DEMOCRACY
Donna Dufresne First: Go after the schools by undermining public education. You create a punitive, high-stakes testing system which further divides communities by race and economic diversity, pushing us back into segregation and widening achievement gaps. You publish district test scores in the newspaper, which leads to an insidious type of red-lining, a secret code …
DECADE LATE, SAND DOLLAR SHORT
Donna Dufresne It’s been years since I’ve been to the beaches in Southern Maine. Perhaps even decades, and more than half a century since I peddled sand in a bucket as a child. We rarely went to the beach when I was growing up in the fifties & sixties. My mother didn’t drive, and my …