Lives, Not Politics

When I first heard that one of my favorite aunts had been diagnosed with breast cancer, I burst into tears, because I knew all too well that this was a disease that was indiscriminate and hard to understand. My second thought, thankfully, was much more practical: my aunt had a fabulous support system in her [...]

Random Thoughts, the Eleventh

I’ve spent most of the past week in my kitchen, baking away like a busy little elf. Since I’m short on cash this year (thanks, unemployment!), I decided to bake cookies for most people’s gifts. I made four different kinds of cookies and three different “edible gifts” which is just a way of saying “not [...]

Can We Really?

Three years ago, around 11pm Eastern time, the news went out around the world that Barack Obama had won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and had become the first African-American president of this country. Three years later… Obama is still president, gearing up for his 2012 re-election campaign – a campaign that might have seemed [...]