Grief and Gratitude
It seems like this has been a season of tragedy, both for the country and in our personal lives because many of us have also lost loved...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Apr 26, 2020
- 32 min
EVERYTHING UNDER THE RAINBOW
A Commentary on Sex, Sexual Abuse, Society, Spirituality and Sexual Orientation PREFACE: I wrote this after having some communication...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Jan 20, 2019
- 15 min
WILL THE REAL MASCULINITY PLEASE STAND UP? My thoughts about "toxic" masculinity.
Okay, Gillette does a commercial which chastises men for bad behavior, a shadow of the “#MeToo” movement. Some men react, “I don’t need...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Jan 7, 2018
- 19 min
#MeToo
I labored over whether to write this for a couple of months. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what I wanted to say, or in the final edit, that...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Oct 31, 2017
- 19 min
WHITE FEAR
WHITE FEAR I first wrote this in 2017, this is an updated version of the previous blog post. I was raised in the 1960s on a farm about...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Oct 31, 2017
- 9 min
The Woe in Woman
She eloped across the county line at fourteen, lied about her age, and married a man almost twice her age. In today’s world, he probably...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Jun 16, 2016
- 8 min
The Assassin’s Illusion (A commentary on the Pulse Nightclub shooting)
I grew up with guns. My grandpa had rifles and shotguns hanging on the walls. They were propped on ten penny nails driven just far enough...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Mar 14, 2015
- 11 min
"Nigger?" An Essay
(NOTE: I have been surprised by the number of people (All white people so far) who have completely missed the point of this essay. This...
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Karlyle Tomms
- Dec 1, 2014
- 5 min
AN ESSAY ON FERGUSON
When I think of the events occurring on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson Missouri, I am struck by the realization that it only takes a single...
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