Aug 18, 2020Dear Young Voters, Sincerely, Gen XDear Young Voters, I know you’re disillusioned. I know you’re unhappy with the political process, I feel, in my older-ing bones, your lack of enthusiasm for the last man standing. I get it. I was part of the generation which came of age at the height of the AIDS/HIV crisis…Election 20206 min read
Feb 20, 2020You Say You Want a Revolution? She’s Got a Plan For That.Funny thing about revolutions: they sound kind of sexy, but often they’re bloody. People die. Rights and needs get trampled over for the cause. By nature, revolutions are usually brutal — they have to be. After all, to truly enact massive structural change, you have to be ruthless and single-minded. …Elizabeth Warren5 min read
Jan 27, 2020Death and the MaidenWhen I heard Kobe Bryant had died, after a wave of sadness for the lives lost, and for his family, my thoughts, selfishly, went to my sons. Both play basketball, both regularly use the adjective “Kobe!” when they make a halfway decent shot. …Women5 min read
May 15, 2019Saddle Up, It’s Time To RideMaybe Daenerys Targaryen’s ascent into dragon riding mayhem and massacre wasn’t the lazy narrative arc I’ve been complaining about. Perhaps, instead, Dany and her fire-breathing dragon was a prescient metaphor. …Game Of Thrones4 min read
Apr 12, 2019The United States of GileadIt took me a while to write this. Not because it was difficult, but because early drafts were just a string of curse words and exclamation points. As a woman writer, it’s universally accepted that if you don’t present yourself in a cool, rational way, laying each point of argument…Abortion8 min read
Mar 28, 2019I’m Sexist and I Know ItI used to spend hours arguing with strangers on the internet. From gun reform to reproductive rights and everything in between. FYI, there’s a lot of stuff in between. More than once, in the middle of a carefully crafted and well-researched debate point, someone — usually a man —lobbed the…Feminism5 min read
Mar 6, 2019I’m Pro-Woman — That Doesn’t Make Me Anti-ManIn 2018, I made a resolution to read only women authors. I’ve done this before. It’s always part challenge, part remembrance string around my finger. The reminder? To be less lazy, to look beyond, to seek an alternative. There was some gentle ribbing from those who know me well. For…Feminism4 min read
Jan 20, 2019The Boy in the Red HatYesterday my feeds were flooded with pictures and video of a group of male students from a Catholic school in Kentucky flashing their MAGA colors. At some point, in some way, the group came into contact with a Native American elder, there to protest. …Accountability4 min read
Nov 26, 2018Make Christmas Great Again!#Breaking: As part of Operation Kringle, President Trump today ordered the deployment of the newly renamed 1st North Pole Battalion to an undisclosed mid-west location to monitor and protect the Koch Tree Farm, the nation’s largest supplier of Spruce and Fir trees. President Trump today, speaking from a dais festooned…Satire5 min read
Oct 4, 2018Maybe That’s Your World but it Doesn’t Have to be Mine.Maybe when you were six, skipping rope, a stranger showed you a part of himself you should never have seen. Maybe when you were eleven, one of the uncles who sat around your dinner table touched you in places you didn’t even know you had. Maybe when you were fourteen…Metoo4 min read
