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November 2015

November 23, 2015

Helping Black Lives Matter at the White Thanksgiving Table

Apparently, some people are hoping for Adele to come to their Thanksgiving dinner and soothe...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Nomination for Most Necessary Picture: Twelve Years a Slave

I wish I could talk to my Great-Aunt Marie about the movie Twelve Years a...

February 07, 2014

Brave Love

I have fallen a bit behind. I had high hopes this year of completing the...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

What Bowling Taught Me About Patience

A couple of week's ago, on a cold Chicago afternoon, after being cooped up for...

January 20, 2014

How Is It with Your Day?

I recently asked a friend, via e-mail, what her daily routine was like. It was...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

In The Waiting Time

I really do not like waiting. I will put something back on a shelf rather...

September 2013

September 01, 2013

A Month of Weddings

Yesterday closed out August, the first month of marriage equality in Minnesota. Fittingly, I saw...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

September = Back to….

It's September, pretty much, and all-the-sudden. I feel the lure of "back-to-school" as surely as...

August 16, 2013

Welcome To This Broken World, Sweetheart (2013)

Amid the commotion of our family's ordinary daily lives, I do pay some attention to...

August 07, 2013

Forty Seven Weddings and a Funeral

It’s been almost a week now, but I’m still internalizing the seismic change taking place...

June 2013

June 07, 2013

Into the Summer Daze

We want summer to be leisurely. We want it to be restful. We want it...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Who Decides What Is “Value-Added?”

For whatever reasons having to do with time but also interest, I am the one...