Today I read a Twitter post from one of the parents of a murdered Robb Elementary students that just about broke me. I wrote about it for The Bluebell Campaign:
https://www.change.org/BluebellCampaigntoEndGunViolence
There is still time for you to become one of the first 1000 signers of 5ne petitions to require universal background checks and ban assault-type weapons. We cannot stand still while our children assume that they will always be a target. We cannot allow it! Please help by clicking the link above. And do read Brett Cross’s post.
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 