Don't Just Climb The Ladder, Chart A

As A Blogger, Chez Pazienza Is Filled With Outrage, Passion And Insight -- Delivered With A Distinctive Point Of View, A Wicked Sense Of Humor, And A Two-fisted Style Of Prose. In Dead Star Twilight, He Turns All These On Himself -- And Produces A Fierce, Funny, Disturbing, But Ultimately Uplifting Memoir. This Is The Book A Million Little Pieces Dreamed Of Being.

Moving Ourselves To The Background And Others To The Foreground Is Evidence That The (spiritual) Search Is Achieving Its Purpose.

It's Not Just The Over $8 Billion That We Would Be Saving In Law Enforcement; It's Also The Over $8 Billion That We Would Be Making By Taxing Marijuana... We Are Filling Our Jails With Nonviolent Drug Offenders - Predominantly Young, Predominantly African American... It's A Great Beyond Left And Right Issue. It Has Support Across The Political Spectrum And Also The Support Of The Majority Of The American People.

Women Still Have An Uneasy Relationship With Power And The Traits Necessary To Be A Leader. There Is This Internalized Fear That If We Are Really Powerful, We Are Going To Be Considered Ruthless Or Pushy Or Strident - All Of Those Epithets That Strike Right At Our Femininity. We Are Still Working At Trying To Overcome The Fear That Power And Womanliness Are Mutually Exclusive.

Naysayers Have Little Power Over Us - Unless We Give It To Them.