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A jack of some trades, writing and editing among them, Marta Steele, an admitted and proud holdover from the late sixties, returned to activism ten years ago after first establishing her skills as a college [mostly adjunct] professor in three subjects, then writer ("born" in the South, of course), then mother, then highly successful publishing professional (editor). In the latter context, she began to write or, more accurately, couldn't stop herself from protesting when the entire country came down with media/ Monica obsession and, stripped of judgment, turned to impeach a capable president for doing, perhaps too openly, what few presidents haven't either done themselves or wanted to. Subsequently and probably as a result, Bush was elected and Steele's venom turned against the hideous corruption that had accomplished this. She became an election integrity activist and harsh media critic, incredulous about media indifference to issues of vital importance to democracy. She also became a peace activist, serving on the board of the Delaware Valley Coalition for Peace Action and writing droves of blog entries on this subject. Even as protest against the Iraq invasion burgeoned, the media had other, yellower, red herrings to throw at us. Concerned to inform the future if not the present about the protest movement and the amazing words and events that accompanied it, she attended as many protest events as she could, ink freezing in her pen under the worst weather conditions. These writings reside in hard-copy archives of Words, UnLtd., a paper journal born in 1999, as every blog entry since its cyberspace rebirth in 2005, just when the election integrity movement burgeoned, "fooled again" by Bush's reelection in 2004. She works as a freelance editor (mostly academic) and writer, the proud mom of an ABD. Liza Gwendolyn, working to gain her PhD in public sociology at Princeton University. She still blogs regularly, mainly at Wordsunltd.com and Opednews, but writings are picked up at other sites and sent out into the blogosphere and hard-copy publications as well. At work on an 8-year history of the election integrity movement, she was stricken with Bell's Palsy and had to divert her energies. Time willing, once this monster abates (well on its way, deo gratias), she hopes to resume work on it. She has a large opus she'd like to publish in hard copy as essay anthologies, but so far that hasn't worked--the advice is to make an attracting enough name to succeed in an effort that usually follows upon more single-themed hard-copy and public visibility. Wish me luck. All leads welcome.
Sunday, December 11, 2011 On the Genius of the Occupation
some thoughts contextualizing the Occupation, which morph into a sermon, a Sunday prerogative for even an eclectic.
Monday, May 16, 2011 Muslim Women Speak
An encounter with Muslim women and some new perspectives.
Monday, March 7, 2011 Hot and Heavy: Yellow vs. WikiL
Differing with Republicans on the subject of various shades of honesty and the truth.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 Epiphany: Today and Throughout History
Thoughts on the meaning of today's holiday versus outside events in nature and culture that militate against it.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 On Hibernation and Writer's Block
Fighting the powerful undertow of writer's block, I persist in attempting to set down some thoughts and somehow weave them together.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The Truth Hasn't Freed Him: Bradley Manning Is in Jail
On Palast's reaction to Manning's imprisonment, his take on WikiLeaks/Assange's negligence, and John Young's alienated perspective on both.
Sunday, October 10, 2010 Defiant Requiem
A subjective report on a memorial concert held at Kennedy Center last Wednesday, October 6, 2010.
Friday, October 8, 2010 Cutting a Quick Corner
A lengthy P.S. to a letter to the editor of the Gray Lady published yesterday, October 7, 2010.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 Heroism vs. Idealism
Thoughts on how history moves and civilization survives.
Friday, July 30, 2010 Having Stopped the World . . .
Realizing I haven't posted lately, I wrote the following, some of the usual musing and grousing about our destructiveness as such a violation of the miracle of life gifted to all of us . . . a quoi faire?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 I Am a Progressive (8 comments)
In defense of health-care legislation. Even Kucinich voted for it.
Sunday, February 14, 2010 Dumber than Sarah Palin? or Get Thee Behind Satan!
A brief plea, bound to provoke rotten vegetables, on how not to aid and abet the G.O.P. in its adamantine opposition to anything remotely progressive.
Saturday, February 6, 2010 Is Dissent the Lifeblood or the Bloodshed of Democracy?
Persistent hope for health-care reform, some stats on how many are unemployed and how many lack health insurance, and conversation with a conservative opposed to the entire idea of supporting such "shiftless" people in any way.
Sunday, January 3, 2010 Northwest Flight 253: Revolutionary Evolution Needed
What the terrorist Christmas surprise warns is that, for western civilization to survive, we must advance from reactive to proactive thinking. We must become as creative as "they" are.
Monday, December 21, 2009 21 December 2009: Snowbound: [Mental] Wheels in Fifth Gear
Stuck in the house for several days by snowdrifts that reached for windows, I wrote down some insomniac visions, unable to add to my blog since I'm away from home.
Sunday, August 16, 2009 A Gentling Pharmaceutical to Save the World
A brief suggestion of how we can solve many of the world's problems and address this country's colossal deficit--the ultimate cure.
Monday, July 21, 2008 More Than a JFK Wannabe, or "Al Gore Rhythm"
A recap of Al Gore's challenge to his country last week delivered to a packed audience at the DAR Memorial auditorium
Friday, May 16, 2008 The State of the Vote
A report on the state of the vote from the perspectives of film and monograph. The two distinguished interviewees were David Earnhardt and Professors Alex Keyssar and Mark Crispin Miller.
Friday, February 29, 2008 Cabinet to Run with Prez?
A vision of how to save at least three lives and place a healthier president into the White House.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Candide on the (Democratic) Candidates
Random musings on the candidates as they have projected themselves thus far. The one worth our time is a distant third even in his own state.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 Last Will and Testimony
How I view reality. To be given to my daughter Liza (lsteele@princeton.edu or liza.steele@gmail.com) in case I die--someone threatened to run me over the other day. In his car. Tell her to please take it seriously. She's watched me teach, though I don't know if she's read my blog. Everything in binder notebooks is important, as are the books on the shelves in my bedroom. Thanks.
