That Area Between Black and White
Vote like a black woman. I’ve been seeing this all over social media, and it’s good advice, sounds simple, but there is a lot of information included in those five words about their choices and motivations. I was chugging right along on these two parts of the post, eager to talk about the Democratic Party, …
A couple of years or so into a new age in America, and I’m still starting almost completely over every day. It’s not just that the mistakes, scandals, and decline are so fast, but that even two years in I don’t recognize my country. Or myself. The phrase “crash and burn” keeps coming to mind …
Attn: “President” Donald J. Trump, Vice-President Michael Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican Party Chairperson Ronna Romney McDaniel, GOP membership, and any other treason weasels of the United States of America I haven’t already mentioned Re: The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018-2028 We need to talk. This isn’t an …
Independence is an illusion. We’re supposed to be raising our children to be independent. We think that being independent is a good trait. And it is, but it only works as long as we understand that nobody – no-bo-dy – is ever truly independent in this country or in most of the world. We need …
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction,” King said in his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality,” he continued. “This is why …
Weird things happen when you get old. Priorities change. Events come into focus. Life is like putting together a puzzle with no picture to guide you. There will come a point when you start to see what it’s probably going to look like if you ever finish it. There is still a lot of trial …
People in Houston struggle to keep their heads above water, literally. We’ve been terrible neighbors lately and still Mexico and Canada offer help to our victims of the Houston area hurricane flooding. We see greed and terribly un-Christian behavior from some in the area while others – Christians, Muslims, immigrants, etc. – step up and …
The race to the bottom continues. If you’d told me when I was a child that one day my heroes would be congress people (well, and Wonder Woman because both the adult and the child me can see Gal Gadot is fucking awesome as WW), I’d have laughed at you. As a female, I didn’t …
It’s like a scene in a movie. The car is speeding up a winding, mountain road, and you see The Curve ahead, maybe there’s a close-up of the rickety old guardrail, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You’re thinking back, wondering what you could have done differently. Could this have been …
The upcoming week includes a celebration of this country’s declaration of independence from England. It is the anniversary we chose for the beginning or birth of this nation. We gather together with friends and family to celebrate our freedoms and responsibilities as beautiful, diverse members of a whole. For more than a year Americans have …