No matter what your career or life’s work, what are the values you aspire to live by? Do you have ways of reminding yourself of them? This post is something from my bulletin board that’s been there for about fifteen years. It reminds me of the kind of writer I … [Read more…]
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…]