

Parenting and Democracy
When my then 10-year-old daughter wanted to go to the middle school dance, along with her other first year middle school girlfriends, I...


Not An Option
June 19, 2017 Durham Linda Belans Democracy is being hurled into a state of collapse by an administration that is dangerously...
Nevertheless
I've been warned. And I've been fired from a couple of jobs for speaking out. Sometimes I've been given explanations: "You have too much...


In The Aftermath: Part 4
Part 4. The cadence of grief is weighted and glacial. Sometimes stillness is its only movement. Grief’s breath has its own will and...


In The Aftermath: Part 3
Kindness Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like...


In The Aftermath: Part 2
I have been thinking a lot about how those of us who lost this election are being asked to figure out How We Got Here: by the pundits...


In The Aftermath: Part 1
Part 1. That feeling when you wake up, open your eyes, and it's still true. Then dread and emptiness and disorientation overwhelm you for...


Digging Deep, Digging in.
This morning, I woke up thinking a lot about the ways we respond to women who have internalized centuries of misogyny and its attendant...
Civil Discourse in Uncivil Times
October, 25, 2016, Durham Linda Belans I had a long civil discourse yesterday with two highly educated, professional white women: one who...


Dancing at the Intersection of Rigor, Humanity and Seeing the Higher Self
“Choose your first teacher wisely; she will live in your bones forever.” Martha Myers. The Intersection of Rigor, Humanity and Seeing the...