The difference between wanting peace and making peace (and how it’s wrecking my perspective) It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Eleanor Roosevelt So it turns out,...
Let America be America We live in two Americas. White and non-white. Republican and Democrat. Liberal and Conservative. Christian and non-Christian. Blue-collar and white-collar. Rich and poor. North and South. East and West. Pro-choice and pro-life. Gun rights and...
The 2020 Back-to-school Mom This is an unusual back-to-school season. With the ever-present disquieting threat of COVID-19, 2020 parents must choose to home-school, settle for the online classroom (also requiring supervision), pay for private school, or hire private...
We’re having a COVID wedding! It’s actually happening. Our son is getting married. In front of people. After one thousand nine hundred and thirteen changes, my son is getting married on Saturday. (Well, maybe not that many changes, but it sure felt like...
I miss you, Mom: How to handle personal grief during a time of collective grief It hasn’t been an easy summer so far. We just keep going, pushing into the discomfort, the unsettling, the non-normal. After weeks and months of collective grief and insecurity,...
