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Alligator Alcatraz: Concepts of a Plan & Recreational Cruelty

July 7, 2025 Sheila Penelope Thorne

I understand it a little more; when people say we need to go back. They are watching the movie Jaws backwards and regaling it as

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Memorial Day and Executive Order 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”?

May 26, 2025 Sheila Penelope Thorne

Monday is Memorial Day, the day to honor and mourn those who have died while serving in the U.S. military. Memorial Day started in Charleston,

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The February Thing: A Family Birthday and History

February 3, 2025 Sheila Penelope Thorne

There was a moment when my mother, pregnant with me, hears of the 1958 world’s fair human zoo of an African village populated with Congolese.

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Juneteenth: News, History and Bite Size

June 17, 2024 Sheila Penelope Thorne

Snacks exist to ease hunger between meals, but, snacks are not a meal. Snacks aren’t the healthiest of foods; loaded with sugar, salt and fat,

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A Puzzling Fall on Deaf Ears: School is In, Education is TBD?

September 11, 2023 Sheila Penelope Thorne

“Deaf culture is so blunt. How did you navigate between hearing culture and deaf culture as a child.” What seemed like a casual comment to

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Juneteenth: The Misogynistic Calculation of Amoral Proportions,The Southern Baptist Convention and Performative Nonsense

June 19, 2023 Sheila Penelope Thorne

This is ridiculous. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has banned female pastors, barred women from any leadership position in the church and ejected 2 churches

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