Tales of Endurance and Enduring Tales from My Father
If there is hope to be found, a significant portion of that hope must lie with America’s fathers. Fathers like those who taught their sons and daughters to carry on.
Confessions of an Imperfect Mother
Never has an office provoked so many feelings of failure, so much discouragement, so much questioning of our own abilities.
The Diminishing Dad
As the man hastily parked his car in the parking lot on an early spring morning, the sun was not yet peeking out from behind […]
Her Children Will Rise Up and Call Her Blessed
<When I was young and brash and full of dreams for the future (and in the process of making them come true), had anyone told […]
Joy Comes in the Morning
I lost an earring this week. The simple, square, gold earrings were a gift from my mother a bazillion years ago. Monetarily they were probably […]
What a Father Is
The skies opened up and wept with the young girl. The day, long, grey, drizzling, matched her mood. She stared at the tiny cardboard box-turned-casket […]
Her Children Will Rise Up and Call Her Blessed
When I was young and brash and full of dreams for the future (and in the process of making them come true), had anyone told […]
Activists Stand on the Dead to Reach Young Voters
Google “National School Walkout” and peruse the results. You will find a variety of sympathy-inspiring headlines and pictures: students weeping, holding impassioned signs, begging anyone […]
No, You Can’t Have My Country
You can’t have my country. You cannot take away anything that makes her her. She has stood proudly head and shoulders above others ever since […]
To My Old Friend Who Abandoned Me Over Politics
Dear X, You and I had a sweet friendship: we raised children and discussed husbands together; we traded perennials and casseroles in times of need; […]