In December, 1990, I was on the verge of divorce. Despite unimaginable stress at home, for a college class final project, I managed to write about the assigned topic: love. That collapsing marriage, my first one, was to a man I met in the fundamentalist cult, The Way, when I … [Read more…]
Our nation is on the brink of hitting a beyond-terrible milestone in this current pandemic: a half-million Americans dying from COVID-19. Today, to honor to those Americans killed by this hideous disease, our newly elected President Biden is holding a ceremony. As our nation pays our lost fellow Americans that … [Read more…]
Do you remember taking a Civics class in school? That would be the class in which you learned how the US government is organized and your role as a citizen in our representative democracy. A crisis in our representative democracy In recent conversations with a few friends, we lamented how … [Read more…]
We’ve lost a lot this year, but we finally won a major battle in science. Congratulations to the scientists’ figuring out vaccines against COVID-19! My dad, the microbiologist who worked in public health, would be giving them a standing ovation! I’m grateful, too, beyond words for this milestone. On the … [Read more…]
“Once upon a time, there was a little fair-haired girl named Melanie who loved surprises. One Christmas morning (her family called their Christian winter holiday, Christmas), she woke up full of nervous expectation and a wee bit of good trouble. Her life so far, all seven years of it, often … [Read more…]