Month: March 2013
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My personal journey from bigotry to equality
By the luck of the draw, in 1943, I was born white, male, heterosexual and middle class. I was instantly granted cultural privileges and advantages that gave me a distinct leg up as I made my way in the world. I grew up in a small town in Tennessee during the so-called “good old days,”…
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A few quotations
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. –Henry David Thoreau, Walden I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. –Rabindranath Tagore Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that…
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A 2002 piece I wrote opposing the invasion of Iraq
A few illogical arguments for the elimination of Saddam Hussein October 12, 2002, Asheville Citizen-Times By Bruce Mulkey “After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad.” –President George W. Bush about Saddam Hussein “I can appreciate his obsessive need to prove his masculinity and defend his family name. But should Americans…
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My story and I’m sticking with it
“Be careful, Brucie, you might get hurt.” A frequent refrain from my great-grandmother and great-aunt while I was growing up in the late ’40s. Well meaning though they may have been, each hovered over me like a domineering mother hen. And my mom, Sue, filled with the intense desire to protect me from polio, tended…
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Our little girl at 2.5 years old
It’s finally dawned on me: We’ve now got another full-fledged member of the family. Yeah, I know, I’ve said something similar before, but these days our family has a whole new dynamic. Gracelyn at age 2.5 takes part in meaningful conversations, organizes occasional dance parties, cajoles us into evening walks under the stars and takes…