We hold the trump card Donald Trump is easy to figure out – many of us have known, or heaven forbid, had to work with, a sly, uninformed, vengeful, and narcissistic bully with a bunch of college degrees. Our reaction to him is what we have to watch.
Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny Perhaps this is the moment when the Civil War has finally ended, and the South has won, led by a Yankee quisling.
Weehawken Traffic Court I’m an old white lady. They’re not going to shoot me, probably. But black men have been pulled over and subsequently shot for a malfunctioning headlight, or, like Trayvon Martin, for nothing at all.
The World's Suicide Pacts I ask myself what a person who wants to survive and thrive does in this suicidal world.
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.
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.
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.
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.