I was born, raised and have spent my entire life living in Genesee County, Michigan. My family is from Pennsylvania on my mother’s side and Missouri on my fathers. After high school I was hired into the ‘shops’, working for General Motors. I worked on the line and drove a fork truck before I started… Read More “Please allow me to introduce myself…”
Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most versatile and radical thinkers in American history. Often overshadowed by her contemporary Emma Goldman, de Cleyre’s essays are noted for their poetic intensity, intellectual rigor, and a distinct “anarchism without adjectives.”1. Anarchism Without AdjectivesDe Cleyre’s most significant contribution to political theory was her refusal to get bogged… Read More Selected Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre Volume 3 – Rostie Publishing
A Sex Revolution is a feminist utopian novel that imagines how society might change if women, guided by the values of motherhood, cooperation, and social responsibility, assumed leadership over public affairs. The story follows a widow who enters a visionary dream world where she witnesses a struggle between Lovella, the Spirit of Motherhood, and Selferedo,… Read More A Sex Revolution By Lois Waisbrooker-Nichols – Rostie Publishing
The Flint Daily Journal had various comics spread throughout each issue until November 10, 1921, when it debuted The Journal’s Family Fun page. Found here are the first 30 days (11-10-1921 through 12-9-1921) of the ‘funnies’.This page includes:• Adventures of the Twins, a serial children’s story by Olive Roberts Barton. • The Doings of the… Read More The ‘Funny Page’ Comes to Flint – Rostie Publishing
The Genesee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)Organized in Flint, Michigan, on June 10, 1897. As one of the oldest chapters in the state, it served as the primary social and civic anchor for women who could prove direct lineage from soldiers or patriots of the American Revolution.By 1922, the chapter had… Read More DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BOOK OF RECIPES GENESEE CHAPTER FLINT, MICHIGAN 1922
The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911 to 1914. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct conscription during World War I. To carry on its work, siblings Max and Crystal Eastman founded The Liberator. Max, an American writer, and his sister,… Read More Poetry From The Liberator Vol 1, No 2, April 1918
Why does love feel so conditional?Why do I seek others’ approval in their wordsAnd their tones?What wired me this way?Why can’t I just be myself?Yet what would that look like?Who or what is the real me?Is it too late for him to appear?Or have I been permanently destinedTo be this puppetControlled by strings of acceptance?If… Read More Conditional
Your voice is annoyingYour rhetoric is annoyingYour ego is annoyingHow can people continue to supportSuch an arrogant ass-hole?And just ignore the truth?Promises, promises, promises brokenFailed business venturesYet they fall in lineYou liken yourself to ChristYou portray yourself as a modern-day saviorYet you shit on the peopleWill there be a recovery?From what you have done?Or will… Read More AnNoYiNg
Two suspects exist – Two medium-sized fishThe season started with an assortment of large and medium aquatic vertebratesOne by one, the large expiredNone with wounds or traumaWhen they had all floated to the topThe mediums began to disappearWe purchased some smallsTo repopulate the pondSoon, 7 of 10 had gone to heavenLeaving 3 littles and the… Read More One of My Goldfish is a Serial Killer
Life should be full of adventureIt is what keeps the mind youngStimulation, exposure, awe, and wonderWill keep the grey cells firingYet life often fills with the mundaneThe same ole same ole day after dayFresh, new exposure sparks lifeBut what was the last first you had?I rack my brain and try to thinkOf something new, something… Read More Last First
My parents were a June-December romanceDad had three other childrenThis put me in a position of havingNieces and nephews near my ageMy brother’s children were little monstersDestruction and terror reigned in their livesIdle threats lingered as punishmentsMy sister’s children were to be religious zealotsGoodness and love were to control all they didThey never spared the… Read More My Parents
Ramblings of an Old Coot 