So long and thanks for all the fish.

July 11, 2009

by Norla M. Antinoro, Ph.D., editor

It’s been a great run and I have enjoyed every minute of it. On June 22 I got married and will be involved with a variety of activities that preclude taking the time required to do a proper job of editing and publishing a progressive political magazine.

To our readers I recommend the online magazine LA Progressive for your enjoyment and edification. Dick and Sharon, the editors there, helped give We! its standards and its contacts. Their advice and encouragement was more than appreciated and I will always be grateful. To our writers, I advise them to submit their work to LA Progressive as well. It has an excellent audience and the best editors outside of We! that I have encountered.

Thanks to all of you, readers and writers alike. I have enjoyed it all tremendously and consider it a privilege to have served as We!’s only editor.

To my silent and much appreciated partner, I offer my heart felt thanks. You helped me find my freedom and relocate my self-respect and find my way free of what amounted to an insideous and destructivce cult. I would have managed to escape eventually but due to your help and encouragement, I did it with my head held high and my mind and self-respect intact. I don’t have your current emai address but I know you have mine so get in touch if you like.

If anyone has business with me as editor of We!, you can continue to reach me via this magazine’s contact function for about one year.

We! is no longer an active magazine. It’s archives can be made available by request and author contacts can be arranged with the writers’ permissions.

“leave no mark upon the earth but the footprints of your compassion and the cechoes of your laughter.” nm antinoro, 2002

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Comment by Jerry Lobdill

2009-07-12 06:28:10

Norla,

Congratulations! Thanks for being there. It was a privilege to be a contributor to your magazine.

All the best,

Jerry Lobdill

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Comment by bob letcher

2009-07-19 12:54:26

norla, thanks for helping me get me out of me. and — oh — best to you. bob
ps ; what is your email address.

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