Mothers and May Days
There is your truth, my truth, and what we agree together to accept as truth. 1960’s era US diplomat George Ball said, “Nostalgia
The Health of the Body Politic
When the 1787 United States’ Constitutional Convention concluded, Benjamin Franklin told a woman outside of Independence Hall that she and the rest of
Travels Through Time
Poet TS Eliot wrote, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we
Feeling The Love
What is love? Merriam Webster defines love simply: “feeling of strong or constant affection for a person; attraction that includes sexual desire; the
Home for the Holidays
Around the holidays, the holidays extending roughly from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, we often hear, “Peace on Earth and Good Will
Coughing Up the “Kool-Aid”
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to
My Mind to Yours October 2015
In a 2011 deposition concerning sexual abuse of children, Roman Catholic Bishop Robert Cunningham suggests that childhood victims can be culpable. Roman Catholic
Sounds of Silence
In the film version of Tennessee Williams’ drama “Suddenly Last Summer,” a manipulative aunt, Violet Venable, played by Katherine Hepburn, attempts to
Talking It All Through
According to a recent NY Times Op-ed piece about New York State’s new “yes means yes” affirmative sexual consent law for SUNY
Gender Rules – Then and Now
After the Big Bang, after the molten iron, dirt, salt water, fresh water and gaseous atmosphere sifted and accreted into the planet
