Author: LookingUp

In follow up to storiesinamerica’s diary of yesterday, about the female soldier who was sexually harassed in Iraq. Perhaps this info ended up in the diary, I didn’t see it. The mother is asking for our help, for our...

I was there when abortions were illegal. When I went to college they were illegal. While I was in college, they became legal. But before that… College girls (we were freshmen, what, 18 or so?) who became pregnant had...

A follow-up to the last diary on community. This diary’s topic: getting to know your neighbors. Do you know any of your neighbors? Are you in a house or an apartment building? Other? (Dorm, barracks, underwater...

Barn-raising. What does the concept evoke for you? A bunch of Amish guys with hammers swarming over a pile of wood? Let’s look at it as a concept instead.   It’s what built this country. Cooperation. One...

the cause to which you devoted the mature part of your life: convincing young people not to join gangs. I was so sad about this all day. A human life to be wasted. Another blot on the country’s name, every case...