So I’m sure you’ve all read that open letter that has almost certainly by this point mortified the teenaged sons of the mother who wrote it (side note – as the kids get older, they’ll appear here less . . . this is the reason). A number of folks have written their own reflections on…
Category: Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two
Woman of God Sees Child of God in Unlikely Place
I saw the school shooting footage yesterday on Fox news, a station that plays at all times in my workplace break room. Fox news reported that the school shooting was averted by an armed officer. It appears at this point that in actuality, the boy, who carried an AK-47, a gun bag, and various magazines and other accoutrements, was…
Running Toward
Virginia Tech terrified me. Aurora angered me. But after Newtown broke my spirit, I decided that in order to survive in this uncertain world, and to continue to go to movies, work, school, and out in public, I was going to have to come up with a new way to see things. Fred Rogers is…
Hearts and Prayers
Ya’ll, I have done not a lick of work today – besides preparing a filing that must go out, which is the only reason I’m still here and not swooping in to pick up my children this very minute. (Yes, even though they say they hate me and I say they annoy the bloody heck…
my bleeding liberal heart
I have my stories that I tell, about memories of lives I have lived in old places. I’m not old, but I’ve been an adult for long enough now that memories of my earliest years out on my own in the world are turning from long, detail rich narratives into calcified representative stories, with rhythms…