As Queen Elizabeth announced, the players had “set an example that will be an inspiration for girls and women today, and for future generations.”
Truth and Reconciliation
I want to draw my readers’ attention to the extraordinary visit of Pope Francis to Canada to apologize personally for the destruction of thousands of Native children over the course of two centuries.
Volare
After graduating from college and becoming engaged with a ring that was too expensive, I was spending a month of a sort of pre-honeymoon with the man I was going to marry in the fall.
These Small Blessings
Actually not so small.
Learning From Virginia
This summer is my sixth at Summer Classics, and I’m fortunate to be re-reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway with seventeen other people and two tutors, as professors are called here.
Where Are the Men?
In the many debates I’ve been reading and hearing about the criminalization of abortion with the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, there is a major deletion: men.
We Go On Fighting
We always have, and we always will…
The Sea of Faith
This week’s dismaying Supreme Court decisions made me fear for the first time in my life for the future of our world, not our Democracy, always somewhat in doubt, but the spiritual, emotional and physical world we all live in.
Take Your Hands off the Wheel
We must watch the ongoing hearings into what happened in Washington on January 6, 2021, not to hear more detail about Trumps’ malfeasance—we already know plenty about that—but to hear about the acts of courage some of those around him displayed that day and in coming forward now to testify.
Happy Pride
I doubt if any other town in the U.S. could celebrate Gay Pride with such a plethora of business and government floats. And with an enormous crowd composed of all ages and all genders.