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Ramona Grigg

Michigan
As seen in: Authors For Democracy, Medium, The Startup, HuffPost, Yahoo Singapore, Content Is Not King, Seeing Things, Substack, The Contrarian, HuffPost UK, Tales of a Wayward Yogini and
Covers:  Writing, politics, humor, women's issues, health care, poverty, media, labor, religion,
Doesn't Cover: Economics, foreign affairs, sports, male bonding, parenting.
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Ramona Grigg’s Biography

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Columnist/essayist at [Substack] (https://ramonagrigg.substack.com/),
https://writereverlasting.substack.com/
[Medium] (https://ramonagrigg.medium.com/),
Contributor at Huffington Post, Crooks & Liars, Dagblog, Daily Kos, others.
Past lives include newspaper and magazine feature freelancer, columnist, essayist, blogger, short story writer, creative writing instructor, workshop leader, and conference speaker.

Writing about politics, feminism, activism, humor, and the human condition.,

Ramona Grigg’s Journalist Portfolio

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Potential Writers of the Resistance, Hear Me Out.

Potential Writers of the Resistance, Hear Me Out.

You need to be heard. We need your voices. Are you afraid? Me, too.

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If Grief is a Weapon, I'm Fully Armed

If Grief is a Weapon, I'm Fully Armed

I've had a lifetime of grieving. For my beloved people, for my beloved country.

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There is No Explaining Grief

There is No Explaining Grief

I Googled 'Grief Quotes' just now. I thought, in place of writing something, I could get away with simply quo…

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Marabel Morgan and Why the Feminists Had To Get Moving

Marabel Morgan and Why the Feminists Had To Get Moving

I wrote this piece in August, 2012 for my blog, Ramona's Voices. It came about, I think, after an egregious a…

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It's Not You, House Hunters, It's Me

It's Not You, House Hunters, It's Me

There are many reasons why I'll never be seen on "House Hunters". The main reason, to be sure, is that I'm no…

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Meshach, That Other Guy, and Abednego

Meshach, That Other Guy, and Abednego

I woke up in the middle of the night (not unusual so far) with the words 'Meshach, ( blank), and Abendego' in…

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Articles

How to Survive Writing Opinion Pieces and Come Out with Every Hair Still in Place.

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By Ramona Grigg
| Authors For Democracy
If the direction our country is going is getting to you, and you find you’re leaning more and more toward writing opinions because your whole LIFE is one big opinion now, take heart that you’re not alone. Scores and scores and scores of us are suffering along with you. Our opinions are often all that keep us going. But there are pitfalls if you’re not careful, and some of them aren’t always obvious.
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Coffee with The Contrarians 04/16

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By Norman Eisen, Ramona Grigg, Jennifer Timmons, Bill Roseen
| The Contrarian
, and many others for tuning into into a special Coffee with The Contrarians with ! We’re live every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 9:15 AM ET. Join us! Get more from The Contrarian in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android
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If Grief is a Weapon, I'm Fully Armed

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By Ramona Grigg
| Substack
Within the past few months three people I’ve loved dearly have died. One of them, my nephew, Jason, died in October, suddenly and without warning. The others, my cousin Kathy and my nephew Chuck, fought their battles with cancer and lost. Kathy died just weeks ago, after only a few months of being told, and Chuck died two days ago, mere weeks after the discovery that cancer was wracking his body.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I wrote features and a general/political column for a chain of six newspapers in western Wayne County, near Detroit, in the late 1970s.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Margaret Pynchon, newspaper publisher from Lou Grant. Also, Brenda Starr.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

A journalist is a truth-teller, a muck-raker,, a story-teller, a poet; as necessary to civilized societies as air and water is to life.