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OK, so nobody who reads this blog can be unaware that Yes Means Yes! is out, and I'm in it, and you should buy it, and I FELL DOWN FOUR TIMES FOR YOU PEOPLE. But we haven't talked much about the other contributors so far. Because, you know, I really like to talk about myself.
Today, I would like you all to give a warm Shapeling welcome to Kimberly Springer, author of the essay "Queering Black Female Heterosexuality," who was kind enough to answer a few of my questions about her contribution below. Huge thanks to Kimberly for sharing her time, wisdom, and awesome with us.
Commenters, a few extra notes for today:
- Please pay special attention to rules number 10 and 11 in the comments policy.
- Although we do get into comparing depictions of fat white women and both fat and thin black women onscreen (and I got rather long-winded on the subject, not suprisingly), I would like to keep such comparisons in the background of this discussion as much as possible. When in doubt, please keep in mind that today's topic is what Kimberly has to say about black female sexuality, not (for once) what white fat women think about being white fat women.
- If you're commenting for the first time, welcome, but please be aware that all first-time comments automatically go into moderation — and Fillyjonk, Sweet Machine and I might not be able to check the queue and release them right away. Please be patient with us.
One last note before we get to it: Don't forget to check out the next stop on the tour, Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman guest-blogging at Bitch Ph.D. this coming Monday, Feb. 16!
Kate Harding: I'd like to give the readers a bit of 101 on some of the terms you use — specifically, the "Jezebel," "Mammy" and "black lady" stereotypes, as well as "queer" as a political stance and a verb.
Kimberly Springer: What's important to note about stereotypes is that, as some people maintain, there may be a grain of truth in them. But also key is to observe the historical continuity. In other words, the more representations change, the more they stay the same. While the icon of the Mammy may be rooted in slavery and the role of black women as caregivers to white families, that role is replicated in popular culture endlessly with black women caring for or teaching white folks something about themselves. Jennifer Hudson, bless her beautiful, talented soul, was relegated to a Mammy role in the Sex and the City film. Usually the Mammy is asexual, so while Hudson's character did find love for herself, that's different than being a well-rounded person who's romantically and sexually fulfilled. Would I have rather not seen any black faces in that film? Absolutely. Carrie Bradshaw can wipe her own damn nose and get Miranda to straighten out her dayplanner.
The Jezebel would be the other end of the spectrum. Why do I always return to Halle Berry in Monster's Ball? Because this Academy Award-winning performance was so bloody offensive. Is it Berry's fault that all the YouTube clips are of her "sex scene" in the film? Not entirely. But this fact is indicative of how the general public views black women's sexuality. It is Jezebel cinema 101: needy, groveling, desperate for white cock, no self-worth.
Patricia Hill Collins, in Black Sexual Politics, does a much better and more exhaustive outlining of the evolution of these stereotypes. I'd really recommend checking out her book for her take on how these stereotypes are updated and reverberate in characters like the black female TV judge, i.e. the black lady. Black women are allowed to enter the frame as judge, teacher, or Oracle carrying out the dominant culture's laws and edicts as if those are determined ahistorically.
The stereotypes raise the question, can we ever win? Will there ever be representations of black women that outruns these specters of history? For example, in the new trailer for He's Just Not That Into You, L.A.-based comedy team Frangela (Frances Collier and Angela Shelton) are featured sitting on a park bench dispensing wisdom, ostensibly, to the film's white female protagonists. Latoya Peterson (also featured in Yes Means Yes) blogged about the spot for Racialicious and her friend nailed the exasperation with this particular representation of black women perfectly, "They always do that to us, don't they?" Yes, cripes, they really do! But what struck me were the comments to the post about "fat black women." What demands do we make on Hollywood to give us depictions we can get with? Let's examine our uncritical pegging of the "fat black woman". Can she speak her mind without being the Mammy or, yet another stereotype, the black bitch/Sapphire?
Queering, as a verb, is meant to encourage us to take risks in how we identify and interact with our sexuality as black women. My basic point is that we have nothing to lose and everything to gain in looking at how queer theory questions gender categories and applying that to questioning racial and gender categories as they intersect. I'm also thinking about black women and our sexuality as always "queer," already "queer" whether we want that or not. Back to my Frangela example, I've got some personal connection to them and so know that, for instance, they made a pilot of a too-smart-for-television sitcom. I also know that they, like everyone else, have to pay the bills. But, yet, I always question black folks who take roles that make me cringe. So, are there ways to queer these representations? To make them something other than capitulations to mass culture? Is it self-delusion to try and see subversiveness when there may not be any? What kind of queering can we do, if allowed the space and resources, of stale stereotypes? Professor Rebecca Wanzo (Ohio State) put a concept to the questions I've been contemplating with her notion of "complex personhood."
KH: Queen Latifah is an icon in the fat acceptance community (or was, before she started shilling for Jenny Craig), and it never really occurred to me before reading your essay that most of her roles are so asexual. I was just so happy for the crumb of seeing a fat leading lady whose body is not (always) an object of derision — seeing a fat woman's sexuality played for something other than laughs almost seems like too much to hope for. But as you discuss in the essay, taking those representational crumbs is not enough — we need to recognize that even superficially positive stereotypes, e.g., the "black lady," are still dangerously reductive. Can you expand on this here?
KS: At this stage, in 2009, I remain uncharacteristically optimistic that we could hope for something more than crumbs from the big house table in terms of how black women are represented. And that word is key: re-presented. I don't want yet another presentation of a black female stereotype that we've already seen a million times before.
So, while I'm all for calling Hollywood on their lack of creativity, I would agree with you that we should highlight positive stereotypes…and then demand complexity in that so-called positive view. I mean, dang, the very idea that Queen Latifah isn't getting play left and right is absurd. And the default to depicting her sexually in a film would have to be played for laughs or related to assumed insecurities she has about her body. Can you imagine the number of scripts she turns down that do just that?
But, then, maybe we need to do a 360 critique. You say that Latifah is/was an icon in the fat acceptance community, but does her mere presence make her deserving of icon status? It's probably best to make this more general than about Queen Latifah in particular, but I would question our impulse to uncritically embrace those who, really, only see us a potential audience. Most celebs lose me when they go out of their way to deny feminism as a factor in their art or who they've achieved success.
KH: One thing that really resonated with me as a fat, white woman was the false dichotomy of hypersexuality/asexuality. Though fat women who aren't black don't have the Jezebel/Mammy history driving that, I think all fat women are subjected to a version of the same stereotypes. We're portrayed as either insatiably horny (which of course goes along with the stereotype of fat women as insatiable, period), or as the best friends/secretaries/teachers/etc. with no apparent romantic lives of our own. Horny fat women are portrayed as clowns, not temptresses — a fat woman's sexual desire is seen as intrinsically humorous, and 99 times out of 100, she'll be shown pursuing a guy who's disgusted by her, with absolutely no clue that he feels that way. And asexual fat white women are usually portrayed as pathetic and lonely because of the fat, even if they're simply in a supporting role with no romantic storyline — gratuitous shots of these women eating junk food at their desks or looking forlornly/jealously at a happy couple invite assumptions about the characters' romantic lives. Whereas (at least this is my impression — please tell me if I'm missing something) the asexual black woman on screen isn't meant to be seen as lonely or having any desire at all — she's just a 2-dimensional human being who doesn't "need" that aspect to her character, because her primary function is to further the white people's story.
Writing it out like that makes me realize that, as profoundly offensive as I find that portrayal (implicit or explicit) of fat white women as lonely and unlovable, it's still humanizing — in a really crude way — as compared to black women's on-screen asexuality. The fat woman might actually have desires, we're just meant to understand that she can never meet them as long as she's fat. The black woman doesn't even have enough humanity to feel loneliness. And please note that I'm deliberately separating the categories of "fat woman" and "black woman" here not because I've forgotten fat, black women exist, but because I think blackness trumps* fatness in this case: a fat black woman in that asexual role is still primarily defined by her relationship/usefulness to the white characters, rather than by her own body.
Going back to the other stereotype, though, I guess I'd say fatness more often trumps blackness, turning the Jezebel/"ho" from a desirable-in-a-dirty-way figure into a clown. (Especially when that fat, black "woman" is played by a man, which adds a whole other level.)
*"Trumps" is obviously a simplistic way to put it, and I certainly don't mean the person's fatness or blackness is obscured in either case. But it seems to me there are two different but related hypersexual/asexual dichotomies here, and whether fat black women are defined first by fat stereotypes or black stereotypes onscreen depends on which half of the dichotomy we're talking about.
So, uh, got anything to say about all that? :)
KS: Yes, I get you! And, if I can use a UK-based example here: on Eastenders, the long-running English soap opera about the working class, they've featured for a while now a fat white women named "Heather." It's been on my mind to start a campaign about her depiction which is, as you note, insatiably horny, always eating, a failure in love, and just generally pathetic. She does have an abiding love for George Michael, but we might question the motives of having Heather lust after George who is out and proud about his gayness.
I bring Heather up because, again, heavens forfend, she should be a multi-facted character, someone not just in scenes for comic relief. Yet, it's that question of desire that you raise so cogently in the distinctions you draw between a hypersexual, fat white femininity and an asexual black femininity. I think we can make the further distinction that at the root of the white woman's sexuality is that she's insatiable because she's never had sex before and, unless she loses weight, will forever be horny. There is a solution to her "problem," according to the dominant neo-liberal narrative and it is one rooted in self-help and willpower.
On the other hand, the fat black woman doesn't need sex. Taking care of others fulfills her needs and desires. That said, the fat black woman as portrayed by black men in drag is, basically, an insatiable freak that plays into heterosexist male fantasies of a hypersexual jezebel who is "two tons of fun" and is definitely insatiable because she has had lots of sex and can't get enough. This man in drag portrays fat black women as unending appetite and just like they might eat up everything in the kitchen, they will eat up a man—mama dentata.
In both cases, for black and white fat women, we might want to look a bit deeper into the representation of insatiability and key into the roots of their desire. We're going wayyy beyond the script here, but if we consider that most actors create a life for their characters other than what we see on screen, we can track the nuances and better critique both motivation and consequences.
All that said, I'd ask readers to comment on Sherri Shepherd's character Angie in "30 Rock." Is this another stereotype that gives a larger black woman some sexual agency since a running gag on the show is how she and Tracy Jordan like to roleplay? Is there some dimensionality to Angie—though we pretty much only see her in relationship to sex and Tracy's fears of not meeting her demands for sex and money?
KH: Can you talk more about how that dichotomy is "a huge obstacle in getting to yes" — how when women are painted as either insatiable or asexual, either way, there's no aspect of choice or (specific)desire in their romantic lives. In both cases, you're left taking "what you can get," whether that's every willing man you find or no men at all.
KS: It's a bit like cable TV: tons of channels, but nothing on worth watching. What would a real choice look like? Like the recognition that people, in general, and black women, in particular, are not all one way or the other all the time. No one's easily pegged as Samantha or Charlotte. That's why I came to enjoy the show "Girlfriends." All of the characters had their quirks or were annoying in their own way (read: Joan), but I thought they did have some dimensionality over the run of the show, which was unusual for a sitcom where the genre demands that its characters never learn their lessons. If we try to live our lives according to the scripts of pop culture, we, too, will never learn and simply feel like we're stuck between Mammy and Jezebel or whatever current incarnations of those stereotypes are.
I know it sounds really corny, and Margaret Cho actually says it quite nicely in the Yes Means Yes intro, but I've gotta be able to say yes to me. And that's not a one-time deal, but an on-going process.
KH: What are some of the steps you think black women can take toward queering their sexuality, in both the short and long term?
KS: What I'm suggesting, initially doesn't sound like a lot of fun, which is a request to over-think sex. Yes, sex should be something that has spontaneity and is enjoyable—by all mean, engage in the freak-a-deak! Yet, in flirting, masturbating, moving through the streets, writing a dating profile on line, who are you as a black woman? What are you putting out there?
This isn't a 19th century call for respectability, but just the idea that one might think while in the process of being a sexual black woman, "what stereotypes am I playing into? Why? Does this feel like me? Am I enjoying this?" I think that we, as black women, spend a lot of time running away from representations that, frankly, suck and that we don't want to be associated with. The result is a lot of silence and reading trash novels like Zane's where we live vicariously sexual lives through fiction and self-help books that tells us that our end goal in monogamy.
Yet, there may be times that you want to play with ideas about black women as exotic and be that sexy jezebel with tricks your partner's never seen. Just be aware of when it's play, when it's not, and how that play reverberates in your daily life. If we all live in the panopticon and surveil ourselves, I would vote for doing that in ways that raise awareness of our inner sexual lives, improve our enjoyment, and create pleasure for our outer lives.
KH: You write about the need for both individual and community attitude shifts. Will you talk more about getting the message out both in terms of personal empowerment and broader reaching awareness-raising?
KS: The individual and societal/community transformation go hand in hand. I think it's great if individual black women can find their sexual pleasure and security in who they are on their own terms, but let's not forget our tradition of racial uplift. Does this mean changing what we think of as "good for the race"? Absolutely. To my knowledge, black women in the 19th century who were advocating for anti-lynching campaigns and suffrage weren't necessarily also advocating sexual freedom (though there were definitely feminists of the era doing so), but they paved the way for us to continue to push forward a progressive agenda for individual freedoms, as well as nation building.
Ultimately, seeking and embracing black women's sexuality in ways that are beneficial to black women is uncharted territory and will have to take place at all levels simultaneously. For those black women who are involved in the church, challenging dispersions cast on other women's sexuality are moments of intervention, as are discussing popular religious, male-centered sermons that continue to place the all the responsibility for sexuality onto women.
Sexism in hip hop and how we're portrayed isn't a one-time battle and we have to be consistent in calling people out on their shit. But, at the same time, we seriously need to give more credit to people and artists that are advocating for a new way of envisioning and enacting black sexuality in popular culture and in the bedroom.
And the last step I'd recommend is: don't have sex with anyone who says, "I've never had sex with a black girl before." There's a reason why they haven't: 'cause they're an idiot who says shit like, "I've never had sex with a [insert race] girl before." [Sorry, pet peeve. Had to get that out there!]
KH: Will you talk about some of the obstacles you see standing in the way of black women having open and honest conversations about sexuality?
KS: Our mommas. Yeah, I said it: our mommas are a big obstacle in talking openly about sexuality. And before anyone wants to go off about blaming mothers and scapegoating the matriarch, tell me this, "when was the last time you talked to your mother about sex, black girlchild?" Yesterday? Good for you. You are in the minority. Of course, the inability to talk about sexuality across generations outside of sex ed classes is endemic to all races, but while we're telling one another what not to do, we need to recognize the times and talk about what to.
Just as always pointing out the stereotypes can be no fun and tiring, isn't it just as exhausting elaborating a list of don'ts without ever getting to the do's? Albeit, standards of acceptability around sexual practices change over time (i.e. I will never discuss anal sex with my mum), but I hear a lot of women claiming a close relationship with their daughters, but it's close on the mother's terms and not the daughter's.
Returning to the black church, I would say this is a huge obstacle in discussing sexuality openly. If sex is discussed at all, it's in terms of negative consequences. It would be amazing to see black church congregations decide that it's time to approach new millennium problems with new millennium solutions and attitudes. Otherwise, we're destined to repeat the same mistakes from generation to generation.
KH: What would you like to elaborate on that didn't make it into the essay?
KS: Less than what didn't make it into the essay, I'd like to raise how this essay made it into a Seal Press book. Before the Yes Means Yes call went out, I'd pitched a book idea to Seal about black women's sexuality. Having taught Seal books for years in women's studies courses, I thought they would be the right publisher for a book that wanted to point out the ways that black women could both challenge racialized sexism and highlight the work of people like Sarah Jones, Renee Cox, and even Janet Jackson in bringing to the fore new expressions of black female sexuality.
Seal's response was that the topic, black women's sexuality, was too narrowly defined. Huh. Interesting coming from a publisher that purports to publish books about the wide spectrum of women's experiences. Presumably, books about weight loss, one's cleaning habits, infertility, etc. are concerns of Everywoman?
Far from sour grapes, and glad that the chapter I wrote is included in Yes Means Yes, I question when the tokenizing of women of color experience ends? The assumption that women of different races, particularly those adhering to feminist principles, wouldn't be interested or learn anything from the experiences of women unlike themselves undercuts the forward advancement of a feminist agenda. How is the assumption that books about women, that are actually about white women's experiences and attempt to make whiteness as race invisible, any different than not making films about diverse audiences and claiming that white people (the only moviegoers?) would never go to see films that feature black characters? Unfortunately, it seems that the only perspectives allowed are ones that blame sexist and racist portrayals of black women on hip hop, painting the entire genre with the same brush, and only seeing black women as oppressed and lacking agency. The result is a limit on opportunities to talk about efforts to expand depictions of black women's sexuality.
KH: Are there any other essays in YMY that struck a chord with you? Recommendations, criticism, thoughts?
KS: (I thought our essays worked well together, situated as they are one after another. I'm really into manifestos. We need more of them. I DEMAND MORE MANIFESTOS. That was my meta-manifesto.)
There are a couple of things about the volume that make it a deeply moving experience. First, I love the thematic set-up. Maybe I'm a mere tool of The Man, but I actually needed permission to jump around with the order of reading, to choose my own Yes Mean Yes adventure. Being ensconced in academia, despite teaching about new media and new ways of thinking, it wouldn't have occurred to me to approach the book from a non-linear perspective. As such, it's made me see how many ways we can concretely transform rape culture.
One of those ways that transformation can happen, and perhaps this has been happening in the U.S. for a while, is through the idea of enthusiastic consent. Some of the essays use this concept as a given, but I think it's worth picking out and defining more forcefully. My rudimentary Googling reveals raging debates about it, which is a good thing. So, I'm trying to figure out how enthusiastic consent to sexual contact might translate to issues of consent around representation. This is another iteration of not only critiquing the stereotypes, but also recognizing what works practice.


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As mentioned, Eczemaderm combines the best of traditional medicine with the best of natural medicine. The Eczemaderm formula is very complex, but to understand why it works, we give a description of its different components.
a. MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) - MSM is considered to be a natural product. It occurs naturally in green plants such as field horsetail (Equiseturn Arvense), certain species of algae, fruits, vegetables, grains, and broth bovine and human adrenal glands, and milk. In the past few years MSM has become so popular that we consider it to be gaining mainstream acceptance. It is so popular that we have even seen physicians prescribing this compound. MSM is a precursor source of sulfur for cysteine and methionine production. Cysteine and methionine are amino acids, and amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Cysteine is one of the few amino acids that contains sulfur. This allows cysteine to bond in a special way and maintain the structure of proteins in the body. Methionine is just as important, as the body can synthesize cysteine from methionine.
Another vital role of cysteine is that it is a compound component of the antioxidant glutathione. Antioxidants serve to protect our skin from harmful substances called free radicals, and these free radicals have been known to trigger eczema. Antioxidants work is several ways: they may reduce the energy of free radicals, stop the free radicals from forming in the first place, or interrupt an oxidizing chain reaction to minimize the damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive compounds that are created in the body during normal metabolic functions or introduced from the environment. Free radicals are inherently unstable, since they contain "extra" energy. To reduce their energy load, free radicals react with certain chemicals in the body, and in the process, interfere with the cells' ability to function normally. Free radicals are believed to play a role in more that sixty different health conditions, including eczema.
In addition, cysteine may play an important role in the communication between immune system cells. Instead of suppressing the body's immune system to treat eczema such as conventional corticosteroid therapies would do, MSM works with the body's immune system and amino acids to aid tissue repair and healing.
According to commonly used pharmacist reference, the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, MSM is an extremely safe ingredient. There are no known or documented allergies to the ingredient. There are also no known interactions with herbs, dietary supplements, or any other prescription or non-prescription drugs. There are also no known interactions with any diseases or conditions.
b. Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids - The disturbed epidermal barrier function seen in eczema has been linked to altered metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids. We've all been warned about how eating unhealthy fats can harm our bodies. Yet, some fats are essential to our health. These fats, appropriately called essential fatty acids (EFAs), play many critical roles in the body, but the two most important involve cellular function.
EFAs help form cell membranes that protect cells from attack by foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria. They also allow nutrients to enter and waste products to exit the cells. In addition, EFAs are needed to make prostaglandins -- short-lived hormone like substances that function on the cellular level and regulate many body processes including circulatory, cardiovascular and immune functions. More specifically, our body manufactures the prostaglandin "PGE1". PGE1 has anti-inflammatory properties and this treats the pro-inflammatory condition known as eczema. If our diets are deficient in EFAs, cellular function deteriorates, gradually leading to the development of numerous health problems such as eczema.
There are two families of essential fatty acids: omega-6 and omega-3. Linoleic acid (LA) heads the omega-6 family, and alpha- linolenic acid (ALA) heads the omega-3 family. Omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid can also be converted to its derivatives, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). EPA is used to make the body's beneficial prostaglandin PGE1. Linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid are considered the only "true" essential fatty acids because the body can't manufacture them and must receive them from the diet. Omega-6 linoleic acid is widespread in our food supply; It's found in most plant foods and in virtually all vegetable oils. Sources of alpha-linoleic acid are harder to come by. The foods richest in alpha-linoleic acid are flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, dark leafy greens, and fish oils such as salmon and halibut oil.
Further benefits of essential fatty acids include reduction of leukotriene, a substance produced in the body that is linked to eczema. Essential fatty acids are quick to provide relief from eczema, and give the immediate benefits of relief from skin itching, redness, and dryness.
c. Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E) - Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects cell membrances and other fat soluble parts of the body. As mentioned previously when discussing the functions of MSM, antioxidants protect our skin cells from free radical damage. This free radical change of cells is speculated to be one of the causes of eczema. In the last ten years, the functions of vitamin E in the cell have been further clarified. In addition to its antioxidant functions, vitamin E is now known to act through other mechanisms, including direct effects on inflammation. Inflammation is one of the underlying processes involved in eczema.
Vitamin E is found in a variety of different substances. These include wheat germ oil, nuts and seeds, whole grains, egg yolks, and leafy green vegetables. Certain vegetable oils should contain significant amounts of Vitamin E. However, many of the vegetable oils sold in supermarkets have had the Vitamin E removed during processing.
d. Emollients - Emollients are semi-solid bases designed to control dryness. Emollients leave a film on the surface of the skin which retards evaporation of moisture and maintains hydration and flexibility. This is usually the foundation of all eczema treatments. We have chosen to incorporate an oil-in-water emulsion emollient. Its texture is non-greasy and this aids in ease of application. The evaporating water from the oil-in-water mixture produces a cooling effect which alleviates itching. A smaller amount of oil content is left as a residual film to protect hydration.
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It's said in politics that timing is everything, that success depends on picking the right time to make one's move. When Barack Obama decided in early 2007 to launch a presidential bid as a freshman U.S. senator at age 45, the naysayers wondered why he was in such a hurry. He proved them wrong.
Three decades earlier, another young political comet named Jerry Brown, freshman governor of California at age 38, similarly had reached for the presidency in 1976. However, despite a late-surging campaign, he lost. He tried again in 1980 and lost again, seemingly ending a promising political career. He should not, some said, have been in such a hurry.
In 1982, he ran for the U.S. Senate and lost, and again for president in 1992; once more, his career in politics appeared to be over. Yet today, after a tortuous path as two-term mayor of embattled Oakland (1998-2006) and state attorney general (2008-2010), Jerry Brown is now is serving his 11th year as governor again, at the top of his game.
Mr. Brown recently delivered his annual State of the State address to a legislature controlled in both houses by his Democratic Party, boasting a balanced state budget after years of dismal fiscal downturn. If it were not for the fact that he is approaching his 75th birthday in April (and battling prostate cancer), he might well be in the mix of speculation for the next Democratic presidential nomination.
In his California address, Mr. Brown the survivor spoke about convincing California voters to pass Proposition 30 to provide new tax revenue in a state that in 1978 had approved a property-tax lid that later spread nationwide. He also trumpeted plans for a new high-speed rail line linking Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, and a water-tunnel system to bring water from Northern California to highly populated regions to the south.
Mr. Brown, son of the late and revered Democratic Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, has found, as a three-time presidential loser, political redemption in the state he earlier had sought so earnestly to leave for a grander stage.
In a way, some of his most notable achievements so far came in response to the challenges he took on in the gritty urban-renewal struggles in Oakland across the bay from San Francisco. Living and working out of an old warehouse loft, Mr. Brown tackled the sorts of unglamorous blue-collar woes that plague most large cities across the country. His record there was impressive enough to revitalize his career and bring him back to statewide office after many years on smaller stages.
In concluding his State of the State address in Sacramento, a still engaged Jerry Brown declared: "This is my 11th year in this job and I have never been more excited. Two years ago, they were writing our obituary. Well, it didn't happen. California is back, its budget is balanced, and we are on the move."
About 37 years ago, the one-time boy wonder of the Golden State brashly made a late effort to take the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination from front-running Jimmy Carter. Unofficially, he teamed with Idaho Sen. Frank Church as one or the other of them defeated the future president in many of the late-voting primary states. But that was the problem. In splitting the late primaries between them, neither Mr. Brown nor Mr. Church could overtake Mr. Carter's early delegate lead in the end.
However, Mr. Brown had another problem that always plagued him as a national candidate. He was a visionary with futuristic ideas that didn't play as well outside trend-setting California as they did within. He was labeled "Governor Moonbeam," and it stuck, though he also preached lower expectations in the face of fiscal realities, which set him apart from usually promising politicians.
Jules Witcover's latest book is "Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption" (William Morrow). You can respond to this column at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The War Between the States ended almost 150 years ago, but the Georgia state senate is making threatening noises against its neighbor. It should think twice. Occupying Iraq and Afghanistan is a cakewalk compared to the hellscape that southeast Tennessee poses for an invading army.
Last week, the Georgia state senate voted to sue the state of Tennessee in order to claim a sliver of land that would grant Georgia access to the Tennessee River. Georgia, readers must understand, has mismanaged its own water resources to the point where it now struggles to supply enough water for the residents of Atlanta (and its sprawling suburbs and exurbs) to fill their above-ground pools and wash the TruckNutz on their mini-vans. Dangerously, the state is actually seeking to redraw a border that has kept the peace for over 200 years, and all over a crucial resource – a resource belonging, rightfully, to the Tennessee of my ancestors.
I have nothing against (most parts of) Georgia. Growing up, though, my mother would drive my sister and me south on I-75, ostensibly to watch a Braves game or visit our cousins, but really to show us the horrors of life beyond the green mountains and valleys of our native southeast Tennessee, where much of my family remains. Other parts of Georgia are lovely: I had the good fortune to be stationed in Savannah for several years while serving in the U.S. Army. But the greater Atlanta area is a horrible twisted mess of concrete overpasses and far-flung skyscrapers. Once south of Cartersville, it's easy to understand why William Tecumseh Sherman thought it wisest to just burn the whole place down and start over.
I am particularly worked up about all of this because Georgia aims to claim most of Lookout Mountain – even the very house I grew up in – as Georgia territory, like it was some sort of bluegrass Alsace-Lorraine. Thankfully, I have a good idea how to stop them.
I have drawn up the following three courses of action. I grew up in the 1980s, when Red Dawn was the favorite film of every freedom-loving boy in Tennessee, and my best friend Henry and I spent way too much of our early years thinking through various ways we would defend our homes against the inevitable communist horde. Georgia has compelled me to consider something similar. And as either Vegetius or the Carter Sisters once sang, si vis pacem, para bellum. Translated into the Tenneessean: If you're a-lookin' for peace, best get ready for the warrin'.
Static Defense ————–
The first course of action in the face of Georgian aggression is a static defense. The main avenue of approach for any Georgian invasion force would be I-75. About a mile past the state line, the highway splits into I-24 heading west into Chattanooga and I-75 northbound heading toward Knoxville.
There's a bend in the highway where all northbound cars must slow down as they turn west toward Chattanooga. It's a natural place to construct an L-shaped ambush. I'd place .50-caliber machine guns on the north side of the split, in the vicinity of the old Eastgate Mall, aimed down I-75. Mortar positions would dig in north of Brainerd Road (or somewhere in the Sir Goony's Family Fun Center and putt-putt course up the road). I would establish a skirmish line along Ringgold Road, with my main line of defense along I-24 and I-75, and a secondary line of defense along Brainerd Road and Lee Highway.
Two problems immediately come to mind, though. Even if Georgia is only able to mobilize half the residents of Atlanta, that's still a lot of SUVs to stop. We can't count on all of them to stop at the Cracker Barrel in Dalton and lose interest. That means we'll soon run low on ammunition and be forced to retreat to Hixson. The other problem is that the University of Tennessee's performance against the University of Georgia last year – in which Tennessee's defense tackled like a bunch of Pop Warner 8-year-olds – doesn't fill one with a lot of confidence about our state's ability to stop much of anything coming out of Georgia. Indeed, the best we could hope for in this course of action is that the Georgians bring a Varsity franchise along with their invading army.
Defend in Depth —————
Another course of action would be to trade space for time, using the Chattanooga area's natural lines of defense to our advantage. As the Union Army once discovered, assaulting up Missionary Ridge is no fun at all, no matter who happens to be defending. And the Tennessee River allows us to protect most of our forces and supplies to its north.
Alas, that would mean my grandmother's house in East Ridge would fall into enemy territory. (Although, heh, good luck to whatever Georgian has the misfortune of kicking down her door.) Almost as bad, we'd concede to Georgia the very territory it came for in the first place.
Although I have no doubt we could launch a bold counterattack before the Georgians got as far as my family farm in Sale Creek, there is no telling how much water those greedy yokels might siphon off before we send them back to Dunwoody (or whatever other terrible Atlanta suburb they came from) with their tails between their legs.
All that sets up a third option – one painfully familiar to Americans after our decade in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's one that plays to the historical strengths of the people of East Tennessee.
Insurgency ———-
An insurgency stands the best chance of success of convincing Georgia of its error. Invading Tennessee is easy enough, militarily. Occupying and governing Tennessee is vastly more difficult.
As a soldier, I fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan; as a scholar, I performed most of the fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation in southern Lebanon. Nowhere in the world, though, have I ever encountered a more brutal, tribal and violent race of people than the Scots-Irish of East Tennessee. Any Georgian occupation force would inevitably get sucked into our petty politics and family vendettas. We might share a language, but Georgia would struggle to relate to its new foreign subjects, let alone entrench its authority over us.
In his book War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1861-1869, historian Noel Fisher describes the way in which both Confederate and Union occupying armies struggled to comprehend the byzantine politics and grudges of East Tennessee and assert anything like political authority over such a lawless race of mountain people. I can almost pity the young Georgian men and women who would be asked to occupy as violent and confusing a place as southeast Tennessee. Alone at night, fearing yet another guerrilla attack and unsure of who they could trust among such an alien race, they would curse the greed of the Atlanta exurbs and the resource war that had been forced upon them. A prolonged occupation and insurgency stands a greater chance of transforming the internal politics of Georgia than transforming the immutable cultural truths of Tennessee.
The wars of the 9/11 era have demonstrated the perils of fighting heavily armed religious fundamentalists on their own soil. We Tennessee Presbyterians are a little like the Taliban – only certainly better armed and probably less tolerant of the Roman Catholic Church. Still, if Georgia wants to invade and occupy East Tennessee, it is welcome to try. Getting in should be easy. Getting out, however, is another matter entirely.
*Andrew Exum is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He led U.S. Army Rangers in Iraq and Afghanistan and had his father mail boxes of Moon Pies to both. *


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KCK mayoral candidates face off before Tuesday's vote
Mark Holland up against Ann Murguia
Kansas City, Kan., voters will go to the polls Tuesday to choose the city's new mayor.
Commissioner Mark Holland is squaring off against Ann Murguia in the race. The two candidates took part in their final radio debate Monday.
One of the issues in the race has been Holland's vote to raise the city's property tax rate during the depths of the recession.
Holland voted for the higher tax in the 2011 and 2012 city budgets. He said that without the additional revenue, the city would've had to lay off employees.
"And 20 of those (cuts) would have been police officers and another 30 would have been firefighters," Holland said. "Those would have been cuts to public safety."
Murguia said raising property taxes was the wrong way to solve the budget problems, especially for struggling homeowners.
"To charge them more when their homes were worth less, I think that is a contradiction," she said.
Murguia said she wants to extend the progress made in the southeast part of the city. Holland said he wants to continue the economic progress made by Mayor Joe Reardon, who opted not to seek a third term.
A final radio debate between Murguia and Holland also focused on third-party flyers now peppering the city, including one from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity that attacks Holland. He said the group supports Murguia.
"How do you get money from unions and then also get money from the leading anti-union group in Kansas?" Holland said.
Murguia, a Democrat, denied any involvement with that particular flier.
Murguia said there's a flyer making the rounds that accuses of her being a Republican.
"It pretty much labeled me a tax-and-spend Democrat," she said. "So it doesn't look like they can make up their mind on that flyer."
The polls in tomorrow's election will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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2010 University of Mount Union Football - NCAA Playoffs
#2 Mount Union Purple Raiders (11-0) vs
Delaware Valley (Pa.) Aggies (9-2)
Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 12 pm
Mount Union Stadium (Alliance, Ohio)
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No. 2 ranked Mount Union hosts No. 18 ranked Delaware Valley in the second round of the 2010 NCAA Division III Football Championship Saturday at noon at Mount Union Stadium in Alliance, Ohio.
The Purple Raiders are 11-0 after a 49-0 win over St. Lawrence in the first round. Mount Union won its 19th straight and 22nd Ohio Athletic Conference title to claim the OAC's automatic bid. Mount Union is making its 22nd NCAA playoff appearance with a record of 66-11 (.855) in the playoffs with 10 national championships (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008). Mount Union has played in the Stagg Bowl national championship game 13 times.
Delaware Valley is 9-2 and won the Middle Atlantic Conference for an automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs. The Aggies are making their fourth playoff appearance and have a 6-3 record in the playoffs. Delaware Valley knocked off Salisbury (Md.) in the first round 23-12.
All Mount Union football playoff games will be broadcast on the radio on WDPN 1310 AM and WRMU 91.1 FM and simulcast online along with a LIVE STATS game tracker at http://athletics.mountunion.edu. Ric Brienza and Mark Grossman broadcast the games on the radio on WDPN 1310 AM. You can listen to Mount Union's student radio feed on WRMU 91.1 FM on any phone by calling (330) 445-7900.
The two schools have never met on the football field. Mount Union is 3-0 against current members of the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) as the Raiders beat Lycoming (PA) 61-12 in the 1997 Stagg Bowl, a 70-30 win over Widener (PA) in the national semifinals in 2000, and a 55-3 win against Albright (Pa.) last year in the national quarterfinals. Delaware Valley has only played one game against a member of the OAC as they suffered a 27-0 loss to Ohio Northern in 1970.
Larry Kehres (Mount Union '71) is 300-22-3 (.927) in his 25th season as head coach as one of the most successful coaches in college football history as he is one of only 11 coaches in college football history to win at least 300 games. His teams have won 21 OAC Championships, including the last 19 in a row, along with 10 of the last 17 NCAA Division III National Championships. This year he is president of the American Football Coaches Association.
Jim Clements (Widener, Pa. '96) is 40-15 (.702) in his fifth year as head coach of the Aggies and holds a 39-15 record. He has led Delaware Valley to three consecutive MAC championships and two straight trips to the NCAA Division III playoffs. Clements was an assistant coach at Widener and an assistant head coach/defensive coordinator at Delaware Valley for two years before being elevated to head coach. He still retains the title of defensive coordinator.
For the sixth year the NCAA Division III Football Championship consists of a 32-team field. For perspective, in Mount Union's first appearance in the playoffs in 1985, the field was 16 teams. This year's field breaks down like this: Automatic bids will be given to 23 conference champions, three spots are reserved for teams that are independents or in conferences not granted automatic bids and the final six spots are national at-large bids.
The winner of this game plays the winner of a matchup between Alfred (N.Y.) and Cortland State (N.Y.) in the national quarterfinals (round of 8) next Saturday at noon.
Delaware Valley started out its season with a pair of wins against playoff team Muhlenberg (Pa.) and then-nationally ranked Washington & Jefferson. The Aggies then took a loss to No. 3 ranked Wesley before ripping off six-straight wins to win the MAC title. Delaware Valley was ranked as high No. 8 in the nation before a regular season ending loss to Widener.
The offense is led by senior running back Matt Cook, who holds every school single-season and career rushing record. This season he has 1183 yards on 233 carries with 18 TD's to earn MAC Offensive Player of the Year honors and spark a rushing attack that averages nearly 200 yards a game. Senior Mark Hatty has completed 60-percent of his passes for 2,373 yards with 20 TD's and 10 interceptions. His top targets are fellow seniors Dan Heiland (50 rec., 733 yds, 2 TD) and Joe Gionfriddo (37 rec., 492 yds, 7 TD's).
The Aggies 3-4 defense has held the opposition to just 230 yards and 11.8 points per game with 39 sacks and 17 interceptions. Senior linebacker Kyle Gesswein is the MAC Defensive Player of the Year and leads the unit. Gesswein, an All-American last year, is the school's all-time leader in sacks (39) that has 67 tackles, nine sacks, two blocked kicks, a forced fumble and a safety this season. Junior linebacker Chris James leads the team in tackles with 75, junior Mike Jaskowski has 9.5 sacks while junior defensive backs Ryan McCullough and Troy Green each have three interceptions.
With a win last week against St. Lawrence, Larry Kehres became the 11th coach in college football to win at least 300 games. Here is a list of the others.
478 John Gagliardi * (Carroll, Mont.; St. John's, Minn.)
408 Eddie Robinson (Grambling State)
400 Joe Paterno * (Penn State)
377 Bobby Bowden (Samford, West Virginia, Florida State)
323 Paul "Bear" Bryant (Alabama, Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M)
319 Pop Warner (Georgia, Carlisle, Pitt, Stanford, Temple)
314 Roy Kidd (Eastern Kentucky)
314 Amos Alonzo Stagg (Springfield, Chicago, Pacific)
305 Frosty Westering (Parsons, Lea, Pacific Lutheran)
300 Tubby Raymond (Delaware)
300 Larry Kehres * (Mount Union)
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Mount Union's win-loss record since 2000
55, 54
The Raiders hold the NCAA's two longest consecutive college football win streaks -- 55 from 2000-2003 and 54 from 1996-99
Mount Union's record in the NCAA Playoffs
game regular season win streak for Mount Union dating back to a 21-14 loss to Ohio Northern in Alliance on Oct. 22, 2005.
game home winning streak for Mount Union dating back to a 21-14 loss to Ohio Northern in Alliance on Oct. 22, 2005.
consecutive regular season road victories for Mount Union dating back to a 21-18 loss at Baldwin-Wallace on Sept. 28, 1991.
Since 1996, the Raiders record when winning the turnover battle.
The Raiders record since 1990 when winning the turnover battle. That lone loss was a 20-17 loss to Wisconsin-LaCrosse in a 1995 national semifinal game in Alliance. In that game, the Raiders had a +1 turnover margin.
Mount Union has hosted 45-straight playoff games (not including Stagg Bowl that is played at a neutral site) dating back to a national semifinal vs. Wis.-LaCrosse in 1996 at Camp Randall Stadium, which the Raiders won 39-21.
Larry Kehres is in his 25th season as head coach but 36th season working at Mount Union as he spent 10 seasons (1975-84) as an assistant coach to Ken Wable then in 1985 worked only as director of athletics before becoming head football coach and director of athletics in 1986. You might not know, he was also the first swimming coach at Mount Union.
Eight of 11 Mount Union opponents have been held to 200 yards or less of total offense. The Raiders are No. 2 in the nation in total defense allowing 191.0 yards per game. They have also not allowed a point in the last 11 quarters.
Senior wide receiver Cecil Shorts III (Cleveland/Collinwood) caught three touchdowns last week and has 10 touchdowns over the last three weeks -- an 80 yd. kickoff return, a 54 yd. punt return and eight receiving TD's He enters this week with a school-record 229 catches for 4,223 yards with 59 TD's in 51 career games.
(NOTE: Prior to 2002, playoff games did not count in NCAA statistics, if those stats counted Adam Marino (1997-2000) would have 272 rec. for 4,704 yds with 52 TD's).
Senior defensive end Lambert Budzinski (Canton/Massillon Jackson) had two of the Raiders four sacks against St. Lawrence which makes him second in the nation with 15.0 sacks. The Raiders have 40 sacks in 2010 which is good for the third highest total in the nation. Sophomore defensive end Charles Dieuseul (Winter Haven, Fla./Lake Region) is next with 7.0 sacks while freshman defensive end Nyejel Thomas (Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic) has come off the bench with 6.5 sacks.
Sophomore defensive back Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood) had his team-best fifth interception of the season last week against St. Lawrence. Senior defensive back Brett Fimbinger (Dearborn, Mich./Dearborn) also had a pick which made him the 10th different player to have at least one of the Raiders 21 interceptions on the season.
A record seven University of Mount Union football players have been awarded ESPN Academic All-District IV honors as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Senior tight end Kyle Miller (Elida/Elida), senior linebacker Sam Kershaw (West Jefferson/West Jefferson), junior safety Alex Ferrara (Independence/Walsh Jesuit), sophomore defensive back Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood), and sophomore punter Zak Suhar (Cedarburg, Wis./Cedarburg) are all first team selections and will advance to the national Academic All-America ballot.
Junior offensive lineman Brett Ekkens (East Kentwood, Mich./East Kentwood) and sophomore quarterback Neal Seaman (Louisville/Louisville) both garnered second team honors.
PURPLE RAIDERS IN THE PROs
Former Mount Union wide receiver Pierre Garcon is in his third season with the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, had five catches for 62 yards in the Colts 31-28 loss to the New England Patriots. Garcon had a breakout season in 2009 as he started 16 games including Super Bowl XLIV where he caught one of his six touchdowns on the season. Against the NY Jets in the AFC Championship game, he had 11 catches for 151 yards and his post-game celebration that included waiving a Haiti flag (birthplace of his parents) made national news headlines as he was bringing awareness to the nation that was ravaged by an earthquake just days before the game. This past offseason he returned to Mount Union and completed his bachelor's degree in communications. He had 3,363 yards and 47 touchdowns receiving in three seasons at Mount Union. He played his freshman season at Norwich (Vt.) and in 2008 the Colts drafted him in the sixth round (208 overall).
Nick Sirianni '03 is in his second season as an assistant coach (offensive quality control) with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Mount Union alum Dom Capers '72 is the defense coordinator for a Green Bay Packers.
Former Mount Union quarterback Kurt Rocco has signed a contract to play for the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League.
Former Mount Union wide reciever Brandon Boehm has signed a contract to play for the Northern Kentucky River Monsters of the Ultimate Indoor Football Leauge. Boehm was a three-year letterwinner (2005-07) who had 91 catches for 1,178 yards.


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EXETER — The New Hampshire Society Of Photographic Artists (NHSPA) is
currently holding its 14th annual member exhibit and sale at the town hall gallery, located in the upper level of the exeter town hall.
The exhibit will run until february 2, (sat. & Sun. Only 12-4 p.M.).
Fine art photographers from around the state have combine their styles and techniques to create a unique representation of old as well as new methods in the field. Black and white silver gelatin prints, conventional color prints, polaroid transfers, historically inspired hand-made contact prints, as well as "state of the art" digital images printed on archival papers are among the photographic styles traditionally exhibited.
Gallery Talk Schedule:
Jan. 12 John Hauschildt: Caffenol - Environmentally Safe Film Developing
Using Household Items.
Jan. 13 Paul Wainwright: Photography, Physics, And Pendulums.
Jan. 19 David Olken: Disposable Art - How To Make High Quality Hand-Made
Photo Art Cards.
Jan. 20 Joe Pepin: Dream Retirement - The Adventures Of Ranger Joe.
Jan. 26 Peter Randall: Making Movies With Your Dslr.
Jan. 27 Udo Rauter: Sand Hill Cranes.
Feb. 2 David Speltz: Photographing Papua, New Guinea, And The Eclipse of 2012.


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When I was born my parents lived with my mother's mother in the 200-year old Barnes family homestead, a big colonial in Scituate, Massachusetts. The house, at 48 Booth Hill Road, was built by my sea captain ancestor Israel Vinal Sr. and given by his grandson Nathaniel to his daughter Polly Vinal at the time of her wedding to Joseph Barnes of Hingham. This house is the basis of my logo, shown above and on my business cards.
|Oldest photo I know of:
48 Booth Hill Road, North Scituate, Massachusetts
Grandma had raised her five children there and when I was born my parents and three siblings were living with her. We moved from Grandma's house when I was a little less than three, but I still have a few hazy memories of being upstairs in a crib watching the shadows playing on the wall while I waited for my mother to retrieve me. The difference in age between my older siblings and me is so great that my eldest brother graduated from high school in Scituate before we moved away, and my sister stayed with Grandma so she could graduate that year. And then they were off to college, and my parents and brother and I moved to Marshfield.
After we moved to Marshfield we visited my grandmother in Scituate on Saturdays until she passed away when I was just seven. I loved my grandmother wildly. She was the only living grandparent I ever knew and she played card games with me every Sunday when she came to have dinner at our house. I thought she was very funny because when I'd need to pause for a potty break, she'd say, "Go for me, too, while you're in there, will ya?" Grandma was intelligent and civic-minded and extremely well-read. I wonder what we talked about? One of my fondest memories was the old stone wall in front of her house. I just loved walking along on top of the stone wall and holding her or my mother's hand. It made me tall, granted me a new perspective on my small world and gave me a sense of power. This is where my love of history began.
|48 Booth Hill Road
Stone wall in foreground has been cemented over
Taken sometime in 2009
Our next house is the one I think of as my childhood home, where I "grew up." I played outside in the woods, climbed trees, played house, got my first cat, Pansy, and learned to read, ride a bike, cook, swim, play the flute, hula-hoop, and on and on! It was a small ranch on an unpaved road only a quarter of a mile from the Atlantic Ocean in Marshfield, one town away from Scituate. We lived there for eleven years and I loved it. I knew every nook and cranny of the neighborhood and felt confident there. I had friends a few doors down who treated me like family, and to this day, when I smell certain smells or something triggers a memory, they always come to mind.
|Growing up
My parents moved back to Scituate when I was in the middle of 8th grade. Lots of people seemed to know and remember me, but they were all strangers to me since we had moved away when I was so young. We lived just three houses down from 48 Booth Hill Road, at 84 Booth Hill Road. It was an old house, built before the Civil War. The people who had lived there hadn't renovated it ever, except to add a bathroom. My parents had to install a heating system, even! This is the house I lived in from about age 13 until college, with the occasional stays until 1990. If I had to choose one house to call home, this would be it. My parents lived here from 1968 until 1990 or so. My brother inherited the house from my mother and lives there with his family.
|84 Booth Hill Road
Painted for our wedding, in 1988
|Updated 84 Booth Hill Road in 2008
Once I went to college things started to pick up. I lived in two different college dorms at UMass, Knowlton (all female––synchronized periods!) and Lewis. I worked at the Cape in the summers and lived in a rooming house (!) and a motel. The latter was distressing to my mother because I brought home "water bugs" aka cocroaches!!! in our minifridge at the end of the summer. Nasty.
UMass, Northeast area, circa 1977
As an exchange student in France, I rented a room from a very old woman and her daughter who invited me to dinner every Sunday night. The daughter, Therèse, had quite a beard going, and she would slurp her potage, fall asleep and snore loudly, leaving Madame Habeault and I to chat about World War II and other niceties. Again on exchange, this time for a summer in Quebec, I stayed in a house with several other students. All I remember is sparse. Then after college, I lived briefly in a double decker in Watertown until I moved to Italy.
In Rome I lived in lots of different abodes, including: a couple of different pensiones; a tiny, grubby, garret studio apartment; a nice apartment that I shared with two Iranian cellists (?); my office in Piazza Barberini; a horrible room in a horrible apartment rented to me by a horrible man (beard stubble in soap--shortlived); my temporary fiancé's mother's house, and a few other forgettable places. At that time I was living out of a huge suitcase, so the trauma of moving was minimal, but I hated not being able to put down solid roots. The fiancé thing didn't work out, so I returned home.
|Piazza Barberini
After staying for a few months with my parents I moved into an apartment in Watertown, sharing a double decker with a different roommate. The place was okay, but the landlord was a creep and wouldn't fix things, so I moved to more cockroaches in Cleveland Circle, Brighton. Of course I didn't know it when I moved in, but a lady down the hall had extreme squalid conditions in her apartment and oh, never mind. Bad memories of wearing a hoodie to bed at night tightly ensconced under the bedclothes. As soon as I could I moved to a fine studio apartment in Central Square in Cambridge, walking distance from work. I loved that little place. So easy to clean, as opposed to the 10-room monster I now live in. No roaches, but you could hear the people in the next apartment via the oven vents and they sounded as though they were in the same room. Final working girl apartment was again in Watertown. Nice place, clean, one-bedroom, easy commute to work, easy parking. Loved it but finally moved when we married.
|Me, my niece Aimee and my mother, Priscilla FitzGerald
Moving me from Watertown to Cambridge
For someone who liked to feel settled, things weren't going well. Myles and I packed up our respective apartments and put it all in storage because we moved to England for a year so that he could get his Master's (Mahstah's) degree in electronic chip design at the University of Southampton. We lived in international student housing in a dear dwelling I referred to as the "Hell-Hole." Talk of sparse! There was a coin-operated machine in a closet via which we purchased electricity, and it took us three months just to get a telephone. The walls were moldy, despite the under-floor heating which just served to bring all of the hidden bacteria from countless past students to the optimal temperature to spread disease. Eww.
|I made a scrapbook of our time there. Forgot all about this!
Back to live with my mother at 84 Booth Hill while we shopped around carefully for our first home. I was psyched! We ended up in Shrewsbury, just past Boston's Metrowest, because the cost of living was great, schools had a fine reputation and it was good commuting for Myles. We bought a little brown cape we nicknamed "The Snuggy Brown House." This is the house where I finally got to unpack my wedding presents two years after we married! Its where we brought all three newborn sons home, where they puked and pooped and drooled and ripped and scribbled their way through their early years.
|Snuggy Brown House ca 1995
When we reached the point of having three kids share one bedroom, we decided to move, and finally came to our present home, still in Shrewsbury. It's big and comfortable and was brand new when we bought it. It doesn't have the character of an antique home, but new construction is so much easier to maintain. This is where my babies have grown up, gone off to college and where I've honed my genealogical skills. After this I don't think we'll live in more than one more place. Or I would have said that before writing this post, but seeing how easy it seems to have been for me to move, maybe I'll be proved wrong.
|Current Dwelling Place
It's funny how quickly someplace can feel comfortable, become the spot where you unwind, the spot you crave when you are tired. Big or small, new or old, I remember that about all of my homes.


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Produce smart phones faster with high speed bearings
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