

Healthy Family Feuds
It's healthy for families to argue. It's OK. Democrats shouldn't be afraid of this big public argument right now. It's very healthy....


The View From Up Here
I never imagined -- in my lifetime -- that I would be able to vote for an African American president. Or a woman. And yet here we are....


A Body in a Farmer's Market
Holding the Gaze​ Witnessed: May 14, 2016. 11 AM There’s a fragile body moving ever-so-slowly through time and a space, where it doesn’t...


The New Ism
Binary, the new "ism", spawned by social media, is the ism that worries me deeply right now. FB seems a dangerous, maybe even lazy...


The Anatomy of Hate
The theory Wiesel talks about in his conversation with Bill Moyers has resonance for what's happening in our beloved country and in my...


Dance's Tear Factor
News and Observer In 30-plus years of writing about dance, I can count on two hands and a couple of toes the number of times a performer...