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Dec 13, 2020

Dr. Sister

Not often, but sometimes, people call me Dr. Wilberg. If they like me and want to rib me a bit, sometimes they call me Doc or Dr. J. I don’t call myself Dr. Wilberg but I put Ph.D. after my name on anything that is remotely professional in nature. And…

Dr Jill Biden

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Dr. Sister
Dr. Sister
Dr Jill Biden

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Apr 21, 2020

Long Division

I wear a mask when we walk the dogs and when I see someone approaching a block away, I cross the street. I haven’t been in a store or a restaurant since March 13th. I wash the mail, well, not really. I let it sit in the front hall for…

Covid-19

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Long Division
Long Division
Covid-19

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Jan 16, 2020

Bernie’s Mistake

Bernie Sanders isn’t alone in wondering if a woman can be elected president of the United States. I’ve wondered the same thing. I’ve said the same thing: I don’t think a woman can be elected president. I think Hillary Clinton’s loss had an enormous amount to do with her being…

Politics

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Politics

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Jan 2, 2020

Ring In: 2020 is the Year to Put Cowardice in its Place

You can wish all you want, rail against the injustice of the locked door, commiserate with all your locked-out friends, none of that will matter. The door will stay locked until you ring the bell. But it isn’t easy ringing the bell. You have to walk up to the house…

Politics

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Ring In: 2020 is the Year to Put Cowardice in its Place
Ring In: 2020 is the Year to Put Cowardice in its Place
Politics

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Oct 13, 2019

Unconditional Soup: The Gift of No Strings Giving

I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to convince people to give my little organization, Time of the Month Club, money to buy homeless women tampons and pads which, once used, will be heaved into some landfill along with disposable diapers and other unpleasant detritus of lives lived in the…

Menstruation

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Unconditional Soup
Unconditional Soup
Menstruation

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Sep 19, 2019

The Currency of Homelessness

I heard our local police chief refer to homeless people as an eyesore. An eyesore. Like a junkyard, like old wet carpet piled at the curb, like boarded up, burned out buildings on main street. Living breathing people seen as an eyesore. He wasn’t speaking about his department’s official policy…

Homeless

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The Currency of Homelessness
The Currency of Homelessness
Homeless

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Sep 12, 2019

Inheritance: The Genetic Legacy of Racism

Once, while she was sitting in a chair in my living room, I reached out and touched a Black woman’s hair. At that moment and without thinking about it in any way, my hand was drawn to her hair, its airiness and resilience. I patted her hair a few times…

Racism

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Inheritance: The Genetic Legacy of Racism
Inheritance: The Genetic Legacy of Racism
Racism

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Sep 12, 2019

Words on a Page: How Writing Becomes an Addiction

I have a writing life. I’m no Stephen King but I have a writing life. One that I think about a lot — how much am I writing, is my writing any good, does it matter? My big accomplishment this year on my blog is that everything posted has been…

Writing

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Words on a Page: How Writing Becomes an Addiction
Words on a Page: How Writing Becomes an Addiction
Writing

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Aug 23, 2019

He Didn’t Have a Gun

I haven’t written about it for a long time. When I wrote about it, it was still oddly fresh, even though it had happened so many years before. That’s what the first telling is always like. After the first time I wrote about my illegal abortion, I walked down the…

Gun Violence

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He Didn’t Have a Gun
He Didn’t Have a Gun
Gun Violence

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Jul 15, 2019

Why I Swim in Lake Superior

Lake Superior is very cold. Today, the surface temperature of the lake in front of our house in Grand Marais, Michigan, was between 54 and 56 degrees according to the Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System. By the end of August, the water will be warmer. By Labor Day, it will…

Travel

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Why I Swim in Lake Superior
Why I Swim in Lake Superior
Travel

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Jan Wilberg

Jan Wilberg

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Progressive activist, daily blogger at https://redswrap.wordpress.com. Politics, feminism, aging, and family.

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