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Issues


  • A Frank Conversation

    I recently reconnected with a cherished friend with whom I hadn’t spoken in about 12 years. You know friendship is true when it’s as if no time has passed and you cackle like you always did, sharing dreams and fears. We have done all the catching up on family, kids and significant others. We’ve reminisced…

  • Banned Books Week

    It’s Banned Books Week and the fact that it exists is disturbing. In the 21st century, there are books being removed from libraries, curricula and schools. How did we get here? Oh right… different ideas, perspectives and people are dangerous! How do you have a “free” society that isn’t free to read the books they…

  • Sooo, I Wrote a Book

    It’s been a minute, I know. But now you know why. I’ve been writing! I’ve mentioned before that I joined a writer’s group when I moved to Costa Rica. At that time, I was an uninspired poet who hadn’t written in months. Slowly, as the fresh air filled my body and built-up anxiety loosened its…

  • Thinking Of a Masterplan…

    The Constitution should be “colorblind” in a nation that is colorstruck? SCOTUS strikes again. When my daughter told me on Friday about the court’s decision regarding affirmative action, I didn’t blink. I was not surprised, nor should anyone else be surprised. This court has a masterplan: to make America great again (although it never has…