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...