REVIEW: The Star Wars movie Apparently, George Lucas doesn’t think it was worth it. As if he had sold the Bible to Charlton Heston. Read more
My Four Rules for 2016 This afternoon I went to a restorative yoga session . Perhaps I was meant to be listening to my breath during the meditations, but instead I came out of it with four rules for the new year. Protect myself Do my job Seek moments in which to receive and to give kindness Seek new experiences In that order. Read more
An ordinary human thinks about GMOs I do trust my senses of taste and smell, and my abilities to follow a logical trail from sterile seeds to trouble. Read more
Redefining compassion we should rise above the adjectives “tolerant,” “polite,” and “courteous” to value the more nuanced and demanding virtue of compassion, and we must practice it with courage and consistency. Read more
What's a Syrian mother to do? If I had left a bombed-out house and a home town reduced to rubble and had walked partway to Europe and spent my life’s savings to pay a criminal to transport me across dangerous waters, I’d probably stay there and not try to come to the United States. Read more
BOOK REVIEW: Frankenstein Meets Santa May we, like the elves, find the time and enough love in our hearts to welcome the foreigner, the unbeliever, the lonely stranger half crazy from grief, and turn him into a valued member of our communities. Read more
An alien in my own land I liked how the principals of ALABAMA don’t even pretend to go to the gym. They are Everymen, and if you add the audience, it was an Everyman’s holiday. I’m more a Fulfill-Your-Individual-Potential person – a Yankee girl, not a “Dixie Dream” (as ALABAMA phrases it), clearly out of place. Read more
The abortion dictatorship The twisting of the truth that is occurring now is easily as pernicious as shouting “Baby killer” at a soldier returning from Vietnam. Read more
Some TV, Good TV, Makes Me Want to Say “Please Leave Your Clothes On” In my opinion, television series like Masters of Sex, Six Feet Under, and Orange Is the New Black have turned their actors into porn stars. Read more