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Doing Good in the ‘Hood

Jennie Orvino Posted on May 12, 2022 by Jennie OrvinoMay 12, 2022

Under a grant from the Community Building Initiative, we have been working for several years to strengthen the influence and power of our beautiful, diverse community. The cleanup day I describe in this post has happened at least four times before, and our group of neighbors has succeeded in curtailing sideshow type events and homeless encampments on our streets (at least for now).

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Records Ripping and Presidential Plumbing

Jennie Orvino Posted on February 10, 2022 by Jennie OrvinoFebruary 10, 2022

Is anyone else wondering why Donald Trump is not in jail yet? The latest law he broke, just in the news, is the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all written communications, classified and unclassified, related to official duties be preserved, and subsequently turned over to the National Archives upon a given administration’s end.

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Falling and Flying with Robert Bly

Jennie Orvino Posted on November 23, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoNovember 23, 2021

I see from a Facebook post that the literary giant Robert Bly has passed away. This blog post is longer than usual because it consists of an essay from my book, Poetry, Politics and Passion about my relationship with Bly. It’s the best way I can think to memorialize him.

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Add my voice to the march for choice

Jennie Orvino Posted on October 4, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoOctober 4, 2021

My abortion was neither a trauma nor a fight. At the time, I lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where there was an excellent women’s health clinic and a Planned Parenthood that offered confirmation of my pregnancy and the means to terminate it. No crowds stood outside these facilities holding “Baby Killer” signs. I did not walk a gauntlet of so-called pro-life demonstrators yelling at me to change my mind about the procedure.

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The film “Athlete A” begins but not ends the story

Jennie Orvino Posted on September 17, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoSeptember 17, 2021

I can hear and read about issues and events, but the medium that sinks a story into my soul is film. Last evening, I cued up Netflix instead of dinner, having just read, front page B section of my local … Continue reading →

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9/11/01 — First, Second and Third Thoughts 20 Years Later

Jennie Orvino Posted on September 11, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoSeptember 11, 2021

The voice of my daughter Rachel, then age 30, who was living in New York City at that time, gave me the awful news. The first thing I said was, “Now there will be another war.” She said she was about to leave for work. Here’s a never-published poem I wrote afterward; all political thoughts left behind, I focused only on my dearest.

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Self-Care

Jennie Orvino Posted on August 14, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoAugust 14, 2021

The most important thing I’ve learned from the intractable pandemic isolation and the rise of the reality-denying, extremist Trump cult, is how to take care of myself. I learn more every day.

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Seeking Mr. Right: a review of Fifty First Dates After Fifty

Jennie Orvino Posted on August 1, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoAugust 1, 2021

Carolyn Arnold was able to transform the story of her midlife recovery from a breakup into a readable and educational book, moving past the eat-pray-love model of experimentation and indulgence. This book both opens your heart and makes you think.

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Birthday Blog 2021

Jennie Orvino Posted on July 26, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoJuly 26, 2021

Since I was a teen, I thought having a summer birthday was the coolest. Looking forward to a midsummer party that included music, dancing and a hint of romance kept me going for the entire month of July.

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Torture at Guantanamo: What we’d like to forget

Jennie Orvino Posted on July 13, 2021 by Jennie OrvinoJuly 13, 2021

In light of the recent death of war criminal, torture advocate and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the beautifully made film, The Mauritanian, reminds us of what we’d like to forget. Yet Guantanamo prison is still not closed after 20 years.

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