Yesterday morning, I turned on the CNN news and watched it for a few minutes, then I switched to MSNBC for their perspective. I haven’t done this for a few weeks, although watching television news has been my go-to practice for several years. CNN’s broadcast featured a report on how… Read More »Can We Trust the News?
It should come as no surprise, given the topics I write about, that I am more than a little fixated on the news. I like knowing what is going on in the world—the news has always been a backdrop to my day. But this year, the news has been depressing,… Read More »With Democracy and Decency at Risk, Is Now the Time for a Hero?
We didn’t visit a lot, in the country where we grew up, so we didn’t know much about how our neighbors lived, but we did know what they drove. And we could tell, especially in the fall, when the crops were in, that this family, or that family had a… Read More »Tall Tales at the Country School—a Story
It has been a tough year. We’ve had shocking election results. We’ve had the re-emergence of Nazism, We’ve had the threat of nuclear war, we’ve had unprecedented natural disasters, and now we may witnessing our closest neighbor self-destruct. Magazines, newspapers and books are rife with hateful articles, we don’t dare… Read More »In the Land of Nod
If you listen to any news, if you are aware of world events at all, you are convinced that things are getting worse. Shocking images of the war in Syria, nuclear threats from North Korea, and the behavior of an unpredictable president in the White House leave you gasping and… Read More »Are Things Really Bad, and Getting Worse?
Let’s put aside the hateful political rhetoric that has dominated the news for months. Let’s stop speculating about the fearsome cabinet picks of the new president-elect—especially those who have a hate-based reputation. And let’s stop giving air space to the “fake news” that is currently poking it’s head out of the… Read More »It’s Christmas—Let’s Talk About Love
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