The 2014 A – Z Challenge takes place annually in April. The challenge organisers leave the topics of the posts open. Some bloggers choose to free write their way through the month while others select a theme for their writing in the month. 2014 is the first year I have participated in the challenge and I used it to explore as many aspects of Social Justice as the alphabet permitted. It was a great opportunity to formalise my thoughts and share these with visitors to QueasyPeasy.
24 March 2019 On the north western side of the Barossa valley, Greenock village is a peaceful retreat set amongst vineyards established by Lutheran immigrants of the 19th century. We spent time camped at the village oval which has a beautifully restored grandstand. Self-contained RVs can spent up to a week in lovely surroundings and…
I am one of those who are “soft” on the old buildings around towns. Maybe it’s their historic value, or that they’ve escaped the wrecking ball, or they remind us, or evoke sentiments of a bygone era. Identifying architectural styles isn’t my thing and, like art, I know what I do and don’t like. Straight…
The gems that lift us out of the grunge of everyday life bless me each time they find me. The one below was on a temporary wall in a shopping mall. I was on a mission and focussed on caffeine when the words jumped off the wall and I stopped long enough to read the words,…
When I attended secretarial college in the 1970s a stint on the switchboard was a non-negotiable . When the numbered globe lit up, we lifted the receiver off the hook, uncoiled the twisted cord and plugged the phone jack into the correct slot in the panel and connected the caller, it took skill to answer…
Every time I get to a certain roundabout in town I think of BB. BB had been engaged in counselling for a while and felt she was coming to grips with the aspects of her life that caused her anxiety and stress. She had engaged with mental health services whom she saw weekly. Except when…
The A – Z Challenge takes place in April because that month has 26 bloggable days. That’s right, one day for each of the letters of the alphabet. The challenge is to blog six days a week, Sundays off for good behaviour, giving participants time to catch up on visits to other bloggers’ contributions. The…
Here we are on the final day of this April A – Z challenge through the alphabet. QueasyPeasy (QP) has focussed these posts around the cause of Social Justice, highlighting particular aspects of substance dependence and how there are matters to raise the flag for Social Justice within this community of individuals. Social Justice is…
The only experience I had of using cannabis was back in the days of San Francisco wear some flowers in your hair, free love and we were all digging ourselves and being totally cool man. I know, it’s a long time ago and thankfully my soiree into substance use was a completely negative experience.…
Colour My Blog for Social Justice A new badge has appeared in this blog on the right hand column. One that relate to a fourteen-day walk through to help those of us wanting to up the ante on our blogs. Facilitated by the blogging gurus at WordPress, Blogging 201 has taken us through the…
Because my theme for this year’s A – Z Challenge is social justice in substance abuse I want to talk about a relatively new conversation; the one that goes along the lines of implementing random urinalysis screens (i.e.: drug testing) for everyone receiving a welfare payment.
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