Relationships for Sale
Watching commercials lately you might think interracial families are invading America. But in some form or another, they’ve been here all along. –One of those kids in the commercials
The Best of the Breast
A proposed terminology change in the U.K. has stirred up conversation in the U.S. Should all parents be included in the art of feeding babies?
A Plea for Women
This morning Lisa Montgomery became the fourth woman in the nation’s history to be executed by the federal government, the first in 67 years. Here’s how that happened.
Maslow Looks Us Over
If America were an individual person, would she find that all of her needs are met?
A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
For Men Have Children Too
A boy’s act of criminal mischief ends up in small town news, and his father uses it to teach him a valuable lesson. A real-life November story by Mauve Maude.
Thinking of Thanks
This Melanie Tannenbaum article from Scientific American ruminates on what we, in theory, all know: that gratitude is good for us, all year round. This year, may we challenge ourselves to take in the lessons of gratitude by distance. Being apart can never again be a reason not to give thanks.