Take Back Your Life!

Hello readers,

As the holiday to give thanks approaches, it reminds me how fortunate my life has been and how difficult others’ lives have been. I wonder why does it have to be that way? Why can’t we all live fortunate lives?

I’ve been distressed about the young women and children forced into sex slavery. Big subjects speak to me. I don’t care about some jacket going on sale at The Mall, I care about humans made to do horrible things against their will. It’s a growing, very profitable “industry.”

It took me a good year of reading books, watching movies, reading articles, but I finally had my newspaper column published, The Sex Slave Next Door. Please consider checking it out. Some folks won’t read it because they say it’s too hard to read. (more…)

Something new here at the Muse to keep the creative juices flowing. I’ll start the story. Feeling game? Please add the next couple of sentences or paragraphs, leaving your last words to be a cliff hanger of sorts. I’ll post the new entries as they come separated by the tilde. Many thanks! G.

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I’d been in the cave for 3 days. My food and water were almost gone, my portable lamps running low on batteries. Yet, I didn’t want to leave until I’d completed the Van Dussen Challenge. I thought back to the argument that led me to sign up for it … (more…)