All around me I hear people disparaging the campus protests so brutally put down at a number of “top” universities, disparaged as a meaningless waste of time…
Aloneness
We live in a Noah’s Ark society where the expectation is that everyone, but especially women, will be paired.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Although routinely disparaged by mainstream reporting as having no meaning or results—as the Vietnam protests were disparaged—and resisted with increasing violence, the students at big and small colleges and universities are taking risks for us, the silent older generations.
No Onions in Four Languages
The old vows for heterosexual couples now seem not only outdated but impossibly demanding; gay couples perhaps have a different attitude.
We Always Wanted to Win
Yes, we always wanted to win. And sometimes, we do.
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
As we stumble as individuals and as nations through a time of great uncertainty, some individuals and even some nations also stumble toward various forms of often painful enlightenment.
“Fatty, fatty, two by four…”
I hate to write the first line of a disgraceful ditty that I probably said more than once with other girls when I was a fourth or fifth grader. I was ashamed to say it, I knew it was wrong, and yet I did, which is probably the case with all wrongdoing.
Maybe Brett
Blessed as I always am in my work, I’ve discovered a possible new topic for a biography in the life of the British/American painter, Dorothy Brett.
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Now that girls are not routinely instructed in fear—of mice, spiders, snakes, and the unknown—our native courage is much in evidence.
Next Year in Jerusalem
Obsessions always interest me having hosted several of them with various results but I doubt that any of mine have shared the intensity with which Jews at the conclusion of Passover all over the world shout, “Next year in Jerusalem!” the dynamite that powers the unending war to erase Palestine.