Risk Management
I’m updating my website with the help of a super talented, visually oriented friend. An unexpected response to the necessary questions like “who is your audience?”, and “what do you […]
Tag Archives: truth
A Trip around the Sun
There are some milestones in life where there is an expectation that we engage in a little self-reflection. Big moments like the birth of a child, or the death of […]
Blindspot
Watching the students who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School become activists has both been beautiful and heartening. Seeing their grief and outrage evolve into a […]
How Bias Works
I discovered years ago that when my thoughts are racing too fast, and for too long, that I lose complete touch with my body. I become a head in a […]
Pigs in Space
I have been writing too much for the last month to write a blog post in case that’s an acceptable excuse. No time to rant, rave and pick apart the […]
Attention Cranky Hippie Ladies: you are promoting the wrong kind of feminism.
The power to define yourself rather than allowing society to define you by your gender or sexuality is the foundation of feminism. Mean people wear tie dye too. Attention Cranky […]
Guest Rant: I Did Not Love My Mother
I re-post this as a salute to my friend who is brave, kind and more than just a pretty-good Mom. A Mother’s Day Essay A Pretty Good Mom An ugly […]
Sunshine Week
Many years ago when I was studying Ancient Greek we used a primer about a farmer and his family. It was the Dick and Jane of the classical era with […]
Queer
The word Queer is one I have not used in a very long time. When I was in middle and high school we (meaning the girls) used it as a […]
Radio
Anyone who knows me knows that I am Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion and Pro-Reproductive Justice. The objections people raise about other people having an abortion don’t move me. I find it ludicrous […]
Pandora’s Jar
Every once in a while when I am coaching a client I get to witness a moment when they realize possibility. An almost audible “click” as thoughts crystallize and the […]
Mercy
The other night I watched a movie about lateterm abortion. It was a documentary called “After Tiller” that followed four doctors who were colleagues of Dr. George Tiller the abortion […]
Future Harm
The discussion, debate, screaming and posturing over the Edward Snowden leak about the NSA Prism program is at a fever pitch. I haven’t met anyone yet that doesn’t have an […]
Trusty
Trusty is one of those words that seems lonely without the “my” as in “I have my trusty…” whatever. Wrench. Horse. Sidekick. Duct tape if you’re Red Green. That thing […]
Ditto
For some reason my local daily ran this September Washington Post Op-Ed in yesterdays paper. It much more eloquently articulates the reasons why voting is important to research funding. I […]
