A letter written after a terrible shooting: Dear people in my facebook feed whose first inclination, after hearing about the Colorado movie theater shooting, was to bash the parents who dared bring their children to a midnight showing of a Batman movie, My son Jack was born on a gorgeous spring day in 2008. From…
Category: Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two
A Beautiful Paradox
Fun convo going back and forth among a couple of women I know, and I wanted to join in. You can read the Atheist here and the Mormon here. I won’t wax on for hours – I don’t have hours – but I just wanted to say a couple of things. I come from a…
Wanted
It being Friday night, when The Professor disappeared in the back of the house put the littlest one to bed, I decided to load Jack into our stroller and walk him to the grocery store to pick up a couple of pints of ice cream. He was already bathed and in his pajamas, and I…
It Still Resonates
From MLKJ’s last speech in Memphis: “You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh’s court, and he cannot hold the slaves…
Checking in
I had three exams in a row. Just finished my third – which I was able to take pass/fail, since you get to select one class in law school to take pass/fail, and I’d saved mine til now! Thank heavens, too – that sucker was not easy. I’m fairly confident I passed it, though, which…