Does America love guns more than it loves its children?

November 6, 2025
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Does America love guns more than it loves its children? It sure appears so. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. America’s obsession with guns isn’t just embarrassing—it’s deadly. And the bodies piling up aren’t just adults in crime-ridden neighborhoods or people in the “wrong...
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6 Comments · Opinion

How much do black lives matter to you?

June 1, 2020
black-lives-matter
I don't know how to tackle this subject and do it justice. I just know I have to try, even If I stumble. Do you find it as strange as I do that we have to actually...
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21 Comments · Blog

When we remembered who we are

May 25, 2020
who-we-are
This is my hope. That what's going on now will turn the tide for humanity. That we will realize that caring for one another is what's really important and that we will...
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10 Comments · Blog, Soul School

Why I can’t leave you, California

May 22, 2020
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Oh, California, I can't quit you. I've tried to leave. I've left once. I've said I was leaving. But then a day like I just had comes up and I know, I can't leave you....
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9 Comments · Blog, Travel

To go grey or not? That’s the question

May 12, 2020
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Every five weeks I'd sit in my colorist's chair and ask "how much grey do I have now? Is it pure grey, silver or salt and pepper? Is it time to go gray?" With only a...
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15 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

What to make of memories in this time of reflection?

May 11, 2020
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"Sometimes, our lives overlap with others, only briefly. We share troubles, laughter, or learning and move on,  Afterwards all we will hold in common is a memory. The...
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6 Comments · Blog, Soul School

How Boomers are making the best of it

May 10, 2020
I know. She looks rather like a madwoman, doesn't she? Would you believe I have my mother's 1950s RayBans that resemble these sunglasses? Only hers has rhinestones in...
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What to do with the deep sorrow of grief

May 8, 2020
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The deep sorrow of loss and grief can be almost unbearable. So when a friend whose beloved son died some weeks ago said that the Guided Journal through Grief at A...
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What I’m learning in this wilderness of uncertainty

May 1, 2020
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We're living in a wilderness of unknowns, of uncertainty, where around any corner could be the moment that takes our lives. Some of us spin out in anxiety, some avoid...
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5 Comments · Blog, Soul School

Now is the time to use critical thinking

April 24, 2020
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It was bound to happen: a time when in order to survive, we're called on to use critical thinking skills. Many of us are ill-prepared to do this because we haven't...
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How the words of Call the Midwife can comfort us in difficu...

April 17, 2020
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"Not all of us can choose what we give up: the things we love are taken, or never ours at all.  Life is defined not by what we let go, but by what we let in:...
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