Dear Rev. Tutu, I read this morning of your plans to retire and felt it necessary to convey my gratitude, not only for your work for others, but what your work has done for me, personally. I live in the US, a world away from the challenges of life in…
Leave a CommentMonth: July 2010
For many years, I’ve attempted to reconcile my admiration of the devout with the way the Catholic Church worked in my childhood house. Granted, to lay it all out here would be a chore that wouldn’t be much fun reading. But I start by saying, my dad’s a saint. It…
Leave a CommentWhen I was young, my mother had a Good Housekeeping view of motherhood and the ideal place for women in the family. She came from a family of twelve, ten kids whose stay-at-home mother was as stern as she was forgiving. Her father worked as a postal inspector, and in…
Leave a CommentHey, Stinky, I trust things are going well. No news, I told V yesterday, is either good news or very, very bad news. Since I can’t think of anything you wouldn’t tell me (except stuff about relationships), you must be doing all right. If not, just tell me and we’ll…
Leave a CommentSteve Martin (7/10, Letters, Immigration reform) proposes new US immigration laws based on Mexican immigration law and 18th- and 19th- century anti-immigration sentiment recently reified by a number of right-wing and conservative demagogues. The rhetoric these alleged pundits generate distracts the working people of the United States from the kinds…
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