Community Fundraisers: Recovering From Abdominal Surgery (Updated)
Current total raised and pledged, not including food: $3664.46. Almost 3/4 of the amount needed. Only $1335.54 to go! Update: Tonya's out of the only foods her severely autistic daughter A will eat and...
View ArticleCommunity Guidelines: Suggestions for debate-free zones besides IGTNT
In the new draft Community Guidelines, kos declared that IGTNT should remain a debate-free zone, with which I definitely agree, but that that should be the only one. I disagree with the latter...
View ArticleKos Katalogue Special: Check out Aji's Birthday Sale!
My beloved Nimisenh (elder sister) Aji has a birthday coming up on October 20, so in her honor, my brother Wings, her husband, is having a 20% off birthday sale through the 20th! That's 20% off...
View ArticleKos Katalogue Special: Aji's Birthday Sale continues
A couple of days ago my brother Wings, Aji's husband and an award-winning Native American silver artist who maintains a gallery at Taos Pueblo, his people's home since ancient times, announced a nearly...
View ArticleKosAbility: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Fall Over
Hi there. My name is River, and I've written a few KosAbility diaries before: on diabetes, dialysis, and erectile dysfunction (with my husband Charles CurtisStanley), and I can't remember right now if...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: Tonyahky needs help NOW.
I saw a post on Aji's blog this morning about a mutual friend and fellow Kossack, tonyahky, who needs a relatively small amount of financial help immediately and also to get her moved into her new...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: BFSkinner still needs our help, and urgently
Update: We made it! BFSkinner has what he needs and can complete his move. All that remains now is for him to find a roommate who'd like to live in a big house, who is reliable, who would like reduced...
View ArticleAn Epidemic of Love: our thanks and appreciation
Let there be no doubt in any Kossack's mind that we are a a fractal community, one which is composed of tightly-knit smaller communities including communities of one. A Kossack is comprised of...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: AnotherMassachusettsLiberal has an offer for you
While I'd seen AnotherMassachusettsLiberal on Daily Kos for a while in the years after I joined the Great Orange Satan, I truly met him online in 2009 when he offered to transfer his Netroots Nation...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: Chacounne, longtime Kossack and anti-torture activist,...
Chacounne, equally well known as Heather, a longtime Kossack and dedicated anti-torture activist, is one of my sisters. I have several sisters who are Kossacks; they come in a variety of colors, sizes,...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: When you don't even have a bed
First, the short form: Do you have a bed to sleep in? If not, is that voluntary? For one of my dear Kossack friends, LoreleiHI, it isn't. In fact, she badly needs a real bed to sleep in because not...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraisers: This time it's family.
This is Cora, the service dog. She’s a member of my family, because her human is my stepdaughter Miriam. When I look at Miriam’s photo below, I see the family resemblance to her dad, Kossack Charles...
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