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
Little City Books, Hoboken, NJ People walk in beaming. “A bookstore!” they say. ‘Thank you!’” Tell the snarks to go to hell. Read more
A divorce ring? People divorced one year or less might wear a red ring, people divorced 2-5 years a blue ring, and people divorced five years or more a green ring. Someone suggested a white band across the ring for each child. Read more
Cafes in California and Europe I love European cafes. They are a place of refuge, companionship, and, most of all, escape. They are where you eat dessert. Read more