In My Left Hand
The power balance of the U.S. federal government has tilted to the left. What should liberals do if they want to keep voters on board? And what should the right expect? Maude shares some suggestions.
Big Girls Don’t
For many, maybe most Americans, ten months of unusually high stress have resulted in weight gain. Maude’s personal struggle has crossed a line, and she’s not having it. The 2020 Twenty: Entry One.
Flashback: On Guns and Abortion
Last fall, I wrote on two topics that had been running a parallel discourse in my mind for a long while, and finally got my thoughts straight on their unexpected interrelatedness. Since then, it’s been my most read feature post, and it’s also been updated to include one woman’s special true story.
Going Ever Forward
Magic. If we have any hesitancy, or doubt, lose confidence in how to press on, if we need just a breath of hope or encouragement to keep going, we can come back here, to this moment, and treasure it. The first Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, and “The Hill We Climb”
Say Her Name
What started as a hashtag in support of Black lives is now being used to martyr White ones. A look at the usage of a catch phrase in context.
Side
It’s Saturday. Just for fun, here’s a theory to entertain.
MLK in Black and White
We honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a nation. But we seem to have different interpretations on what he stood for, that are especially apparent in January 2021. Maybe we’re coming to an understanding.
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.
When the Blue Comes Off
Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter — three true statements nobody should need to say. But they’ve all been said, and for Black Lives in Blue, it’s All complicated.
Three Days in America
In a long-term memory that’s both extensive and detailed, I have just a palmful of “JFK moments”–the ones in which you remember exactly what you were doing and how everything felt at an historic moment, so well you can instantly, mentally put yourself right back in it.