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Full Circle
Trigger Warning: This post is about child sex abuse and also suicide. Please take care of yourself first and foremost. Since coming out publicly as a survivor of child sex abuse about seven years ago I have written articles, blog … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, alcohol, child sex abuse, come out, Doyle Center, Family Advocates, gay, MaleSurvivor, memories, New Jersey, Platteville, sexual assault, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, suicide, survivor, UW-Platteville, UW-Platteville Counseling Services, UW-Platteville Dean of Students
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Maybe the Best Christmas Present Ever
Even as a little boy Christmas for me was never mostly about the gifts and the commercialism that mark the season in this country. As a child in a strict Irish-Catholic family it was about the celebration of the birth … Continue reading
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Tagged A Family Matter: A Parents' Guide to Homosexuality, Amish, Aunt Avene, blessing, Brian WIld, Christmas, Christmas Eve, come out, Currier & Ives, dementia, driftless area, engaged, family, gay rights, Happy New Year, holiday, hometown, homosexuality, honesty, humor, Ireland, Irish, Irish-Catholic, Jesus, justice, Madison, Merry Christmas, Mom, mother, pierced ear, Platteville, political statement, potato famine, Santa Claus, Shullsburg, sprituality, Wisconsin, Yahtzee
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The 1943 Mulcahy Mine Disaster
Shullsburg, Wisconsin is tucked into the southwestern corner of the state, just eight miles from Illinois and twenty miles from Iowa. It is among the oldest cities in the state, founded in 1827, more than two decades before statehood. Everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Badger, Badger Mine and Museum, Benton, cave-in, Cecil Ingraham, collapse, Darlington, Elk Grove, environmental regulations, John Stephens, Joseph Griffin, Laverne Kittoe, lead, Lead Miners Memorial Park, Leadmine, Maynard Howell, Mineral Point, miners, mining, mining disaster, Mulcahy Mine, National Register of Historic Places, Nelson Jones, New Diggings, Platteville, profit, Romano Luciani, Russell Farrey, Shullsburg, Walter Mauthe, William Rooney, Wisconsin, World War II, zinc
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A Supreme Celebration
My thoughts are all over the place this morning due to the Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8. Mostly I’m thinking of how far we’ve come (and a bit about how far … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, Brian, campus gay group, Capitol Square, closet, coming out, Concerts on the Square, couples, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, faggot, gay, harassment, Harvey Milk, homosexual, LGBT, Madison, marriage, marriage equality, Platteville, prop 8, queer, Stonewall, Supreme Court, Wisconsin
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A Life Filled with Violence
My mind and my heart are still numb from the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Days later it continues to stay on my mind. The shooting resonated in the country primarily because of the children. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Bad Axe, beating, Black Hawk War, brass knuckles, bullies, Cain and Abel, capital punishment, Chicago, color, Colorado, community, criminal justice, Dane County Courthouse, Denver, Dubuque, family of choice, fights, gang, gay, Horan Hall, humiliation, interior peace, Julien Dubuque Bridge, knife, Los Angeles, Marines, mass killing, Mississippi River, murder, Navy, non-violence, overdose, pacifist, peace, Platteville, post traumatic stress disorder, prison guard, prisoner, PTSD, racist skinhead, rape, respect, Revolutionary War, robbery, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Savanna Illinois, sexual abuse, sexual orientation, shooting, South Pacific, suicide, Viet Nam, violence, World War II
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A Single Bluebird 