Become The Hero Of Your Story
First Published on Truthdig, December 2017. When I arrived at the Sonoma wildfire’s ground zero, I expected to find grief, rage, tragedy. Instead, I found a celebration of sorts–a coming together of three generations of a family that was simply grateful to be alive. Two National Guardsmen stood in the morning sun next to a […]
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Change the names, change the dates—Every time I write about gun violence it’s the same story. Will this time be different? European countries have virtually ended gun violence with swift and brave actions to make guns difficult to buy or illegal. Yet here in America our love-affair with our cowboy image appears to hold greater […]
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First Published by @SocialEarth As the media shines the spotlight on Trump’s circus-carnival-barking they overlook the stories of another side of America—the side of America that celebrates our successful interweaving of immigrant cultures, the great American patchwork that has made our land a beacon to those fleeing oppression and poverty since our nation’s dawn. Equally overlooked […]
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Originally posted on Transforming Life's Disasters, One Word At A Time:
First Published @truthdig.com Dear Mr. Trump: The Mexicans I know are mothers, grandmothers, daughters and sisters, fathers, grandfathers, sons, and brothers; they have walked miles and miles in scorching desert past scorpions and vultures, past the bones of their cousins and the discarded dreams…
It strikes me as odd that the federal government has yet to cite the dangers of driving-while-parenting—parenting twins in particular. Common sense, highway accident rates, and brain science have examined the lethalities of drinking and driving, texting while driving, and mobile phone use while driving—but somehow, the ever-more-dangerous hazards of driving while parenting somehow […]
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Transforming Life's Disasters, One Word At A Time 