We wish you a . . .
From my family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas. And a Happy New Year! Love, Maude
To You and Yours
Is there any such thing as a bad holiday greeting? We’ve never had holidays quite like these before, and I imagine next year’s will be quite different. I’m hoping there are some negative social aspects we can leave in 2020, or 2019.
O Holy Night
If there was ever a year we needed something magical, and aligning, we all know this is the one. And that magical alignment comes tomorrow night.
Mauve Quarterly: Volume One!
December 2020: A Year in . . . what was that exactly? How’s America doing? Read how The Mauve Report got started, and how it really got going. Plus, the Best of Autumn. And what are we looking forward to for Winter? Maude reports.
Put this in your pocket.
Do you need a little bit of joy? I came across an article in the New York Times last month, and maybe you saw it too. If you did, surely you’ll want to see it again. If not, you’ll want to see it again too.
What’s Going On
It’s been nearly fifty years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, the landmark album on which he set aside love songs to sing about social issues, such as war, poverty, racism, police brutality, and environmental destruction.
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.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
The Person In the Box
Sex, gender, same thing, whatever. But are they? Here’s the difference, and why it’s important to know.