I doubt if any other town in the U.S. could celebrate Gay Pride with such a plethora of business and government floats. And with an enormous crowd composed of all ages and all genders.
Blog Posts on Politics
These Young Men
We are deep into another recreation of a woman-hating culture when the gains we’d painfully achieved in the 1960’s are overridden by darkness…
First We Burn
The national news, which almost never recognizes that New Mexico is a state—after all we have only five Congressional delegates—has been pricked into awareness by our five fires, one of
Where Are the Men
We really can’t be expected by any sane human being to take ALL the responsibility for consequences that will burden and at times nearly destroy our lives.
Fireworm
Sometimes it seems to me that we are all suffering from another form of Fireworm called War, or “Imperial Infantilism,” as one commentator called it.
Give Us This Day
Now, as always, there is the question of our minor influence as women on public events, even now when our faces and voices seem to indicate our ascendancy.
Daughters
Last weekend I wrote about sisters. Inevitably I am now writing about daughters. Both posts concern lives of privilege but are not limited by that definition.
Roe
I’m finding it difficult to celebrate my 85th birthday, the anniversary of the decision half a century ago that legalized abortion, forbidding the states to outlaw abortion in all cases and asserting this freedom as a constitutional right.
That Voice
Who is willing now to take these risks to try to preserve the future of the world?
My Grandmother Is Turning in Her Grave
My beloved grandmother could never have imagined that the enormous statue towering over her hometown would be pulled down, carved up and crated off to an uncertain future as it was a week ago.