Joyce M. Simmerman, J.D., Staff Writer
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Self-Proclaimed "FULL-CIRCLE TIDBITS EDITOR"

Sources: Gleanings from, compilation of, and my analyses with comment and
opinion, primarily derived from women from time immemorial and from all
over the world. (I cannot YET venture into the sphere of the Cosmos as
interpretation is too uncertain. As soon as communication becomes plainer, I'll take it on too).

Special Topics of Interest and Proposed Random Coverage: peace/violence; domestic violence with emphasis on how "extended" is "domestic"; hate/love; "equaldignity"/indignity; human rights/ought-to-be's; the "languages" and life-ways/law-ways of these topics, (or linguistics and jurisprudence for
those who prefer the more sophisticated terminology); parents/children/grandchildren; healing and recovery themes, comparisons of philosophies and life-ways, and other miscellaneous V.I.P. topics.

Special topic Areas I Will NOT Go: Specific religious, political, or specific blamings, naming names, etc. Some examples I give MAY be fairly on-point but definitely short of slanderous or libelous. I will not dignify the indefensible either. I also will do what I call the "Billy Graham defense" to critics, i.e., I will be pro-active and I will not waste my creative time and energies answering unanswerable or undeserved critical insults.

Very Brief "Bios": (Considering it Covers 65 Years of Adventures)
I AM: Mom of 5 children, step-Mom to 3, and Grandmother of 16 ¼.
65 Years old; Attorney-at-Law, Juris Doctorate gained after age
50; One of the first persons to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in only 1 1/2 years of formal study with the assistance of equivalency testings; I am an
"ex" of 2 husbands and now married to my soul-mate, Dave. I like the We&Me picture and include it on my bio as We are such soulmates. He shares just about all my thoughts I do believe, and I KNOW HIM LIKE A BOOK! He has been the source of much of my positive input of maleness, (you can only learn so much from 3 sons). This way, the readers will know the otherwise ghostly person I refer to on occasion.

I am also an "Ex" of domestic violence in my own life, sheltering domestic violence victims, starting domestic violence hot-lines & shelter; secretary work; Ex- Deaconess and seeker of religions, (Now content with Spirituality and Philosophies); Ex on "giving up" my creativity to exploitative types, (sometimes "volunteer" organizations but mostly employers or some politicos in the "exploitative" class); experiences dealing with workers comp and disability benefits--both are hopelessly entwined with conflicting interests of Big Business, it seems to me.

Other past-life "Enjoyables" I am now an "Ex" to include dairying; "Old-Mcdonald" type farming of innumerable varieties; raising hundreds of baby calves and pigs; extensive gardening and cooking; breeding and raising Collies; training working collies and publishing organizational newsletters via the old mimeograph; traveling around Alaska and many friends left behind, cafe ownership.

Present Life "Enjoyables"; Surfing the 'Net for wonderful tidbits; free-lance legal projects; development and evolution of prior work with Tribal Courts, drafting laws, ordinances, and bridging Native "Traditional Law" with other systems, free- agent as desired and time permits; researcher and I hope "scholar" of the many life- sciences. See my website for more on this

I have a current "project" of my own design right now to show how linguistics, our many "languages" (broadly described to include, for example, "Languages of Violence" or of Love, etc.), become "embedded" in our psyches and collective conscience which then shape what is acceptable OR unacceptable behaviors. Then to describe HOW these become encoded and enacted into laws, religions, philosophies, moral codes, and how the uses and misuses of linguistics parallel power and influence uses and abuses. Street-wise talk might describe this in the negative sense, as how the bullies and the "system" gets and keeps their bullying
power. In the positive sense I hope to describe this in the pro-active sense of how "The People" can empower themselves with awareness, sensitivity and action to make change at LEAST in their emotional actions and reactions to propagandizing, etc.