Powered by Max Banner Ads A Note from Mother by Regina Sewell (If Mother Earth could speak, this is what she might say:) I know that you’re worried about me. I’m old – really old – as in around 4.54 billion years old. Your activities have taken a toll on my health. You have probably read that the polar bears are drowning because the ice caps are melting. You might remember seeing... 

Six Easy Ways to Burn Yourself Out* by Regina Sewell Burnout: you’ve heard of it. You’ve seen people walk away from activism because they just couldn’t stand doing it anymore. What you may not have heard is how to burn yourself out. Here, perhaps for the first time in print, is a “How To” guide to burnout! 1. Override your need for rest, adequate income, nurturing relationships, physical... 

Status Talk by Regina Sewell THIRTY YEARS AGO In 1981, gay men in California and New York began to show up in hospitals with Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer usually found only among either older Mediterranean or Jewish men or young adult African men, and/or Pneumocystis Pneumonia Carinii (PCP), generally only found in individuals with seriously compromised immune systems. These men did... 

Live Like You Mean It* by Regina Sewell Woke up, got out of bed, Dragged a comb across my head, Found my way downstairs and drank a cup, And looking up I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat, Made the bus in seconds flat, Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, And somebody spoke and I went into a dream. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney – “A Day in the Life” Life is what... 

Enough by Regina Sewell You can never be too rich or too thin. -Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor We use to say, I don’t care if we don’t have any money, As long as I got my sweet honey and a shack in the woodlands. Now we say, I don’t care if I don’t have any money but its not true We can’t live without money, no, because we don’t want to. We want one... 

As If Our Lives Depended On Them by Regina Sewell In the midst of the political jockeying in preparation for next year’s presidential election, the Republican candidates are busy whoring themselves for the Tea Party’s blessing while on the other end of the spectrum, grassroots activists are taking on Wall Street. Somewhere in the middle, the Whitehouse is downplaying the fact that we’ve now been... 

The Political is Personal by Regina Sewell We’ve come a long way from the days when men could be, and on a number of occasions were, executed for having sex with men. The Supreme Court invalidated the last of the sodomy laws in 2003. Gay and lesbian couples can legally marry in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington, D.C., and President Obama is pushing...