Pages, Stages, and Rages

"They weren't killed with guns but with hate. Well now I have hate!" --Maria, West Side Story. I forgive the author of my #...

Another school shooting. I've talked about my feelings here  and that was nearly three years ago. I'm heartbroken for the parent...

So, this was Oprah's speech at the Golden Globes yesterday. I've heard a bunch of people saying that this might have been a spe...

Lotus had a dentist appt today.  (2 cavities--eek) But the thing that has been going through my mind was a conversation with the staff of ...

At the end of West Side Story a woman kneels at the side of her dead lover who has been shot. Two rival gangs stand and approach each other ...

First of all. If you haven't donated to Puerto Rico. Click Here . They are Americans. They need our help and they sure as f**k aren...

Billy Joel may have said it best. "And it's hard to believe after all these years, it still gives you pain and it still brings te...

A few days ago was the anniversary of the I Have A Dream speech. I've been doing research about Dr. King. I think that the thing tha...

Like everyone else I'm horrified by what went on in Charlottesville this weekend. Note, I'm not saying I'm shocked. Racism is ...

So 217 members of the  United States House of Representatives have decided that they want to be mass murderers. The vast majority of these...

We took Lotus to one of the last performances of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus. She loved it. Part of it was the cotton c...

Today we readopted Lotus. We filled out more paperwork. We went to a court and a judge smiled at our daughter and pronounced her our ...

Growing up, our next door neighbors were our dearest friends. I called them Aunt K and Uncle B. If my mother wasn't home when I got off ...

Hey Trump Voters. I'm not going to ask you how you feel about your choice. If you're happy and you think he's doing wonderful...

I'm going to start out by saying this is not what I mean to be writing about. I planned to write about how parenting Lotus is both eas...

Broadway music saved my life. More than once. When I was in sixth grade I had a horrible teacher. Think Snape--except without the forgiv...

He is now the 45th president of the United States. I didn't watch. I will be marching tomorrow unless Lotus' sneezes turn into a...

So today the Electoral College will more than likely make Donald Trump the official President Elect. Unlike a lot of people on my friends ...

I have made no secret of the fact that I do not like the President Elect. I am terrified of him as President. I think that the entire coun...

I refuse to give in to despair. I have to hug a four-year-old and help her to make sense of the world around her. I have to do it with a s...