On the corner of my large writing desk, I’m collecting a stack of articles written by women about what it means to be a woman.  One day, I hope to write a feminist manifesto based upon these essays.   I say a manifesto and not the manifesto,” because my intent is to open possib

I opened my ACLUmagazine, recently, to read a young woman’s statement:  “I realized that I didn’t want to work within the system anymore.  I wanted to help reform it.” (Activists in Conservative Country,” by Tim Murphy, ACLUmagazine, Winter 2019, pg. .) I understood her wo

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump as “temperamentally unsuited” for the office.  How prescient her words were.  Most of us now know the holder of the nation’s highest office is, indeed, temperamentally unsuited.  Neither a prudent n

The crime of segregation is that it keeps us from knowing one another. Non-profits, educational institutions, churches, governments and the courts have fought this consequence for years.  When white America fled to the suburbs in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, they took their tax dollars wi

Someone on my Facebook page shared a quote by Leo Tolstoy that got my brain churning: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. I agree with Tolstoy’s observation. Change begins when individuals look within themselves. (My blog: 7/26/ 12) Blaming