Who Is the Happy Badger?

Ho! I am Happy Badger. My Medicine Name was given to me by Little Feather at a Sacred Sweat Lodge Ceremony in 1976. I was raised in Washington D.C. area and graduated from Marietta College in Ohio in 1974 as a Journalism major.  In 1976, Congress passed legislation entitled Title IX; equal opportunity for Women Athletics. I witnessed and reported the monumental birth of Women’s Sports as publisher of the country’s first Newspaper dedicated to the Women’s Sports scene located in our Nation’s Capitol. My view on equality between men and women? “In the act of being, everyone is equal.”In July of 1978, I met Patch Adams, the holistic doctor played by Robin Williams in the movie.  My friend Tony Crow, a NASA scientist traveled to Oregon together to the annual Rainbow Gathering. There, I met RAM DAS, the healer and author of BE HERE NOW and shared the National Forest site with 10,000 hippies for two weeks.  I hitch hiked home.  I shared a house with some Rainbow’ers in Charlotsville , VA. traveled to a convention called Peace and Humanity in Toronto in March where I instantly met and fell in love with Dawn from Vermont. (She also was first employee of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream located in Barrie VT.) We ‘ve been married for 26 years. We kept in touch, her in VT and myself in VA. where I lived on a new commune. That summer Dawn (Donna) and I met again at the Rainbow Gathering in Arizona. From there, we hitch hiked to Oregon where Donna wanted to meet her recent boyfriend and clear the path for our future. I left her alone and jumped a train to the Yakima area where I picked apples for a few days.  Upon joining again, we hopped a train down south and met her Dad. It was an emotional soap opera kind of meeting, one that fortified our destiny further. We traveled to Vermont for that Christmas, visited a friend who worked for Donald Trump as a pit boss in Atlantic City on New Years.  We nearly won enough money ($400 from a start of $5) to move to Hawaii, but lost and instead we landed in Toledo Ohio with $5.  We like to joke we had enough for 5 children, at a $1 a piece. Thank you for visiting my editorial page.  If you like writing too, visit me at our store in Bowling Green Ohio…331 n. main  @ Clay downtown. Web site progressing www.happpybadger.com. Peace S