Ramona Grigg

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

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

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

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

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

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

I tell writers all the time that they should keep journals, yet it's only lately that I've taken it up again …

Note: This piece is a Substack exclusive. You won't read it anywhere else (not this version, anyway). I'm tes…

Anyone who reads for pleasure knows that reading can be as emotional as listening to music. We all know what …

We're just over two weeks away from the election of our lives and I'm getting nervous. I keep thinking I've s…

I always wanted to be famous enough to have my quotes immortalized on sites like BrainyQuote or Quote Garden,…

It has finally happened. I've become a Twitter fanatic. To give you some idea, even before I wrote that first…

The pain I feel these days is existential. It's not about the crunching in my knees or the flatiron pressed a…

I want women in the highest offices in the land. It's long past time. Note: When I started this essay, Kamala…

As I write this my headphones are in place. The CD is in the slot. The music is transferring to my laptop, wh…

Jazz hurts. It hurts me. And because it hurts I resent the intrusion, the tyranny that forces my participatio…

I believe in the Me Too Movement. Down to my very soul. I’ve written about it before, trying to explain why s…

The religious right is neither religious nor right. It’s a usurpation, a corruption of centuries-old Christia…

February 19, 2014: For days now, since I heard about the death of Jamie Coots, the snake-handling preacher fr…

In the end, with no proof of his innocence, with still unchallenged money problems, with only a handful of re…

I'll make this short and to the point: If you're a man and you've ever tried to undress a woman when she didn…

More than a year and a half in, Trump is still president but it's okay because the Democrats are wusses and i…

In this country millions of children are going hungry. There are as many reasons as there are hungry children…

The mid-term elections are less than a month away and there's a good chance the Republicans will hold the Hou…