The former Republican congresswoman from Florida, who specialized in defense issues, died today of complications from a brain hemorrhage. She was 62.
Fowler was known as the "Steel Magnolia."
"the most recent memory that i keep of her besides the ones of her being in the hospital, is when my sisters and i went out with mich and my grandma to breakfast a couple years ago. we went to perkins, and all sat around this huge round table. afterwards, they took us shopping to the mall.
even though micheline is not here with us anymore, i will always be able to hold on to these memories. and no matter how upset i am about her passing, i know that she is in heaven smiling and watching over my family, finally free of pain and no longer suffering."
Unfortunately, Lloyd the Paranoid Mouse passed away tonight, just a few weeks after learning how to walk upside down on the cage top. He was the father to many mice and although his tail often oscillated wildly like a crazy antenna when you would approach his cage, he was a nice pet.
Sorry to see you go, Lloyd. At least you had a name.
The media and the world say goodbye to Christopher Reeves. This just wasn't supposed to happen. The last time I felt this wrench in my stomach when I heard Princess Diana died.
He has provided hope and inspiration for so many for close to a decade. Imagine having his optimism for so many years. Reeve wrote in his 1998 memoir, "Still Me." "I have the opportunity now to make sense of this accident. I believe that it's what you do after a disaster that can give it meaning."
But it was to be his life, and like the rest of us with disabilities, you realize that it is up to you to fight for whatever life is available to you. You realize too, that it is a daily choice, and sometimes a daily hurdle to jump. With the support of his wife and family, Christopher Reeve fought valiantly, and I realized this morning that I had come to identify with his struggle as a result of my own.
via TalkLeft:
Sad news to report. Aaron Hawkins, of Uppity Negro, has passed away. No details are available yet. He was a unique and talented voice in the blogosphere. You can leave your condolences here.
From What is Uppity-Negro.com?:
You don't have to be a Negro to be an Uppity Negro, although it certainly helps.
The Uppity Negro not only speaks truth to power, they speak truth and self-serving lies and deny that the person they're addressing even has power to begin with.
The Uppity Negro challenges the validity of the hierarchies which lie at the heart of our supposedly egalitarian society.
But mostly, the Uppity Negro likes starting shit for the fun of it.
There's some people where, if they aren't pissed off at you, you must be doing something wrong.
You, my overworked, underappreciated, overeducated, underpaid apprentice, you too carry within you the possibility of Uppity Negritude.
Embrace it.
a fierce, funny, irreverent site I really liked
Words— I only ever really knew him through his words, but they were good ones: they were funny, they went on both wisely and too well about things like comics and Buffy, they stood up for small things; they suffered no fools gladly, but he’d occasionally let ’em take a fool around the block and back, and if sometimes they got outraged, it’s only because he was paying attention. He paid a lot of attention; you were going to learn something whenever you let him have his say, and there’s a lot of things in this world both little and big that are the better for it.
A moment of silence, please, for Aaron Hawkins.
—And then start making more noise than ever. He was the Uppity Negro, after all.
