Will we ever see the rain?

May 30, 2015
If you don't live here, California drought is just a headline, a TV news story, someone else's problem.  But here in California, it's serious stuff, being called...
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Definitely NOT neighborly

May 29, 2015
Our neighborhood has an online "back fence" on which neighbors chat about neighborly things.  (I know. Hey, it's Silicon Valley, right?)  Once in a while, situations...
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I’m not a blogger

May 12, 2015
not-a-blogger
I'm really not a blogger, not really. Well, I am. Sort of. Let me explain. I'm a writer with a blog. I'm someone who uses her blog as her medium. One of her...
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One Day in Auschwitz

May 11, 2015
Somehow, M's alum group in San Francisco found him and sent a mailer for an unusual event. It was a screening of a film in which one of the last Auschwitz survivors...
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What is privilege, really?

April 30, 2015
The question of privilege. What is privilege and should we apologize for it? The concept of "privilege"--unearned advantage--has long been a staple of liberal...
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Parents: would you let her teach YOUR kids?

April 29, 2015
Was there ever as crazy a "love affair" as that between teacher Mary Jo Letourneau and her now husband, Vili Fualaau?  She met him when he was a second grader and by...
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The crazytown of prescription drugs

April 28, 2015
Let me say it outright: I do not believe prescription drugs should be marketed to the general public. I don't know what the government was thinking when they allowed...
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A personal story about gender identity issues

April 27, 2015
It was the early 1990s and I was doing volunteer work for an organization that provided services to people with HIV and AIDs. What we did was something called "emotional...
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Does good parenting mean controlling kids’ media?

March 19, 2015
Our world is consumed by violence and it's only getting worse. While international horrors have taken center stage lately, closer-to-home killings at Sandy Hook and...
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A guy talks about being dumped

March 13, 2015
Guys-dumping-guys
Of course it was inevitable that my smart and funny husband would want to see my essay in the anthology, Dumped, Women Unfriending Women. What I didn't expect was that...
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