Jan Anderson

Jan Anderson is "finding herself" at 50. Jan was a bra burning, picket sign carrying, hippie flower child when she was young. She organized her first protest in the 4th grade - against the rule that girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school. When she was 16 or so, she marched in favor of 18-yr-olds voting. About the same time, she was campaigning for McGovern and against the Vietnam War. Although Jan never lost her ideals, she was not politically active during the years she and her husband worked while raising two fine, free-thinking sons. Well, she's back. Now widowed and disabled, her pen and her wit have become her weapons of protest. Jan writes often, mostly about political issues, but sometimes about illness, grief, family, or pets. Most of her work is intended to be funny as well as serious and includes large doses of sarcasm, satire, and, especially, musical parody. She calls her songs "Parodies for Progressives." Jan posts at three other sites under the name nightowl724: Daily Kos, The Smirking Chimp, and Cure This. She also occasionally writes book reviews at Amazon.

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