The Kindness of Strangers

On November 14, 2016, after being told I hadn’t smiled for a week, I wrote the following post at my Maewestside Tumblr blog. A Twitter friend had invited me to the Women’s March in Washington

I am revisiting my archives. They exist like time capsules of pain, defiance, hope. I am leaving them raw as I wrote them, a mother struggling to sway the wind with her words, trying to fight fascism with her pen.

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Bette Dangerous Podcast Ep7 - The Kindness of Strangers

Here is the text from my Maewestside Tumblr from November 14, 2016, six days after t…