Dear God, My heart is a mess. There’s just more suffering and loss and fear in the world than it can hold right now. Help me not let in so much news t…
....that when someone I love is hurting, I need do nothing or say nothing other than "what do you need from me?" and it will be interesting to see tha…
When is a child not a child? A child is not a child when believing in her existence would force you to notice your own cruelty. When the story of a 10…
...I had an abortion in Texas, thanks to Roe. I will always remember June 5 1974 as the day my second pregnancy ended. After giving birth to MaryAnn i…
Story from a WaPo writer on May 23, 2022 on what POTUS should say about "the upcoming ruling." "Nobody ever dreams of having an abortion. Not the 16-y…
As part of the wave of the baby boomers, I recently took some time to reflect on our generation. We were born after World War I, from 1946 until 1964,…
“Don’t fight it,” says Alexus Kwachka, a commercial fisherman from Kodiak, Alaska, who still gets seasick even after 30 years of traveling between the…
The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac -by Mary Oliver 1. Why should I have been surprised? Hunters walk the forest without a sound. The hunter, strapped to hi…
