We all need friends and family and there are no guarantees in life about our relationships. My path in life took me 100s of places including including seventy places in Hawaii over the last twenty years. While I've lost touch with many friends I am blessed to have a wonderful family of four brothers and two sisters and my parents are still alive (Dad is 83 and Mom is 80).

Water for everyone in the world. Some nations spend more on clean water than food. US corporations like Bechtel are responsible (Mother Jones Magazine)
Lobbyist have still been successful in preventing a livable wage - Please speak up.

My first experience with sex education was a bundle of old Playboys in a vacant lot down the street from my house where we used to light off cherry bombs. Hugh Hefner was a virgin upon discharge and so was I. Can you say early childhood sex education and early teen sex for a healthier childhood based upon reality rather than porn or sexual abuse?

It was 1972 and I was in the military, in the initial stages of pursuing an in-service conscientious discharge. I saw a flier about Ananda and hitch-hiked from University Avenue in Berkeley to the retreat in Nevada City, CA. In those days people had hitch-hking signs that said most any destination and hithcing was easy. Usually the people had pot to share.

Research has shown that women abuse children individually or with the help of others at least twice as often as men. Source: DHHS Administration for Children and Families (Scty.

Research has shown that women abuse children individually or with the help of others at least twice as often as men. Source: DHHS Administration for Children and Families (Scty.

Over the course of one generation recently, 2-3 million children have been abused sexually, physically and emotionally each year totalling approximately 40 million abused children aged 18 and under.

Mothers are the Champion Child Abusers: they abuse children at least twice as much as fathers do. Source 2000-2009 US DHHS Administration for Children and Families ciited at thenononsenseman.com/femme-fishbowl/child-abuse/