run on sentences

For the past three weeks, I have been in my hometown, helping my sister who recently had surgery. She is now the proud owner of zipper like incisions on the inside of both her still shapely legs (a gift from our mother) resulting from a chunk of her right saphenous vein being yanked like a worm from the comfort of its usual location on the medial side of her leg, turned upside down to disable the valves, and transplanted on her left leg, bypassing a blockage in or near the femoral/popliteal artery. This is her fourth surgery on her left leg which refused to consistently deliver oxygen to her foot.  Hopefully the displaced vein will pick up the slack and keep her foot pink. I have enjoyed some great runs in the humidity and clean smelling, moist air.  I never see anyone else running in this town of 150 or less people. Maybe no one ever does so I am somewhat of a curiosity. “I saw you running” people say.  Sometimes they seem puzzled by the activity.  "You wo...

This election has bothered me a lot - not because Hillary Clinton lost, but because of the prejudice against women, minority groups, gays, etc  that is rearing  its ugly head.  Not that it ever went entirely away, but  I feel like I am being thrown back into the 60's during the civil rights era,  when people made a big fuss when Sammy Davis Jr. married the very pale, blond May Britt, and when we could buy "nigger baby" licorice candy.  I didn't feel the effects of prejudice too much then because there was not one single person of color living in my town and the main nationality was blond, blue eyed Finns.   I thought of my first act of defiance during the women's lib movement in the 70's when at an all girl pre high school graduation party,  I along with several other class mates, burned my size 32B bra. It was still bad to say the word "vagina" and women were all convinced that we smelled bad "down there" and had to douche or use some weir...