How to keep a spark of hope alive in our so-called democratic process? How not to drop into numbness and apathy?
Blog Posts on Politics
Claiming the Broom
The witch with her broom is also the woman tossed up in a basket—the high flyer, the visionary, terrifying to many… and more necessary now than ever.
Why I Didn’t Get Pregnant
With our silence, we are promoting, however unintentionally, the Trump administration’s war on women.
Ugly Words
The only possible solution is radical, and like all radical ideas, it is impractical and idealistic, like some of the programs that will be cut.
We Have Done It Before
We rounded up men who had committed no crimes, on suspicion only. We are doing it again.
We Did It
On Wednesday, the Santa Fe City Council passed, unanimously, a resolution reaffirming our status as a Sanctuary City and spelling out exactly what this means.
One Beakful at a Time
I’ve found a solution to these times that will work for me, and perhaps be helpful to all of you. It’s the example of the hummingbird.
How to Be a Goop
Many of the actions described in today’s news could have been carried out by Goops.
A Perhaps Hand: Art and Crisis
Even now with our country in a state of hysteria over the goings on in Washington, we can’t seem to summon the will, or the skill, to write plays—or fiction, or poetry, or paint, or sculpt—in ways that would be relevant to our crisis.
41%
We elected him. We can’t comfort ourselves with signs that say, “Not My President.”