Concerning Guest Author Skyagunsta
Recently I was left a comment accusing both me and Skyagunsta of plagiarism. Skyagunsta is a pen name and the author Skyagunsta also uses the pen name Elena Dumas. Both are the same person using pen names for security and privacy reasons. Because Skyagunsta was known to readers of this blog as Skyagunsta, she continued to use that name for articles posted here but some of those articles also appeared elsewhere under the name Elena Dumas.
Skyagunsta was known to me for a number of years under the screen name/pen name Skyagunsta. It just made sense for us to use that name here on her articles. In one of her earlier posts, I included this information about Skyagunsta:
About the author:
Skyagunsta is a long line descendant of Andrew Pickens ,who fought in the Revolutionary War, alongside Francis Marion better known as the Swamp Fox. He is credited with the victory of the Battle of the Cowpens … a crucial victory for the colonies in their fight against the Crown.
It is said of Andrew Pickens that he defended, many times over and in many situations, the voice of the Underdog.
A trait Skyagunsta applied to own life. One, which, once upon a time had her facing her own danger in Santiago de Cuba, where she was born, as she, alongside some of her friends, distributed leaflets opposing Fidel Castro soon after his revolutionary victory was turning the Country into a Communist regime.
For many years, Skyagunsta … worked as a mental health professional bringing light to darkness and peace to the inner turmoil of many troubled minds.
These days Skyagunsta wonders if she should have made writing her main profession, although she has dabbed at it all of her life.
She is a liberal at heart, therefore, a true opposer of the Bushes, their policies, their politics, and their derivatives. She opposes corporatism, the stealing of elections and she believes in the rights of ordinary, every day Americans.
Below is information about Elena Dumas from the website where her writing appears as Elena Dumas:
elena dumas is a fictional name. the real person behind the fictional name is a computer activist. She is a former mental health clinician. A poet and a freelance writer. Her work has been published in several online publications.
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If you have any questions for Skyagunsta you can comment here and they will be passed on to her.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Skyagunsta, I would love to hear what you have to say about Cuba.
I had a chance to go about 25 years ago with neighbors of my parents. The husband had spent time in Cuba during the Batista regime while waiting for papers to immigrate to the US and wanted to return to see for himself what Cuba was like under Castro. Both he and his wife were elderly and legally blind so they felt insecure about traveling alone and asked me to go with them. Unfortunately my daughter was a baby at the time and I couldn’t bring myself to leave her.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:08 am
WOW!Did your friends make the trip? I left Cuba in 1960-61 (oops my computer just made an update and wants to shut down) … I’ll be back in a sec. OK. Back now. The computer did its thing …Anyhow, I left Cuba just as Fidel Castro was beginning to reveal his Communist tendencies and through the years all of my family has made it to the United States. The one thing that no one here ever seems to mention is that had there not been a Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in Cuba who took the presidency of Carlos Prio Socarras away in a bloody coup d’etat … had there not been a murderous Batista running the government of Cuba … there never would have been a Fidel Castro in the first place. Although I have never been back to Cuba in the 50 or so years since I left, I would love to go back and see Santiago Bay. I have never been able to tear it away from my heart. It was the place of my first dreams, my first love, my first poems. And, if at all possible, I’d want to be the place to receive my ashes when I die . Letting my ashes spend an eternity there would be just heavenly! (No pun intended)!