I’m not a Kennedy groupie. Before I started reading all these articles about Senator Ted and his accomplishments, I thought of him the same way I think of PETA: I agree with the agenda, but the reputation get my eyes rolling… why do they always have to look like such wackos? Then again, the extremists at PETA, while […]
Read More Fringe ElementsI think when people say, “I want to be beautiful, and I want to be in love,” they are actually saying, “I want to be listened to.”
Read More The Sound of One Man WaitingSaturday I walked to lunch and back with my mother, under the parade of oak trees on her street. It had rained, on and off, stopping long enough for us to walk to the restaurant in the beating humidity that had set up camp. When we got back to the front door of her duplex, she pulled out her keys, and codaed our conversation: “Mothers just want everyone to be happy.”
Read More HappyI wrote the other day about Americans having no balls. What I meant by that was: I feel that we should give reforming our health care system a serious, dramatic, bold, brave try. I’m going to add, today, that my rah-rah goes out with a full understanding of why people are afraid. I would like […]
Read More More Fear and Loathing, or, Why Health Care Discussions Are So Scary
