Don’t laugh at me.
Laughter is a deflection, something we often do when we are anxious or uncomfortable. Sometimes we laugh because of fear, vulnerability, ignorance. Thanks to And Another Thing, where I saw this video this morning. As a longtime supporter of the Special Olympics, it was especially moving to me. By the …
Go beyond remembering.
Nine years ago today, this young man died a horrible death. You and I–we didn’t know it was happening, we couldn’t help him, but I think we can help others like him. We must, I believe. Shortly after midnight on October 7, 1998, east of Laramie, Wyoming, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard …
2008 Calendars available soon!
On the first day of every month in 2007, I’ve received a wonderful email from a fabulous woman named Shelley who I’ve never met (who? whom? Where’s my friend Rosemary, the Grammar Queen?) with the words "Happy Tiny Little Rubber Bands Day" in the subject line. It’s my first reminder …
My new favorite quote
"There is no solution, seek it lovingly." -Harlan Miller [image from here]
Strap on your seat belt
All of us were children, weren’t we?, so this applies to all of us, even if we don’t have any mini-me’s of our own. Many thanks to Liesl for sending it to me–in the midst of a Very Very (Very to the 10th Power) Taxing Day with My Supreme Monster …
My Book of Longing
It may seem a far piece, that long walk from waiting for the next Tiger Beat poster of Bobby Sherman— those double-paged ones with the staples right about his collar bones–to longing to see Philip Glass in concert again, but there you have it: two ends of a continuum. And …
Explore your prison cell
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." – Aung San Suu Kyi I have written before about one of my most memorable high school teachers, a man who is now in prison for the rest of his life. My correspondence with Mr …
Give a child a book, a look at a larger world
I remember so vividly the day I went to the post office to buy stamps and the man in blue handed me a book of self-adhesive stamps! Of course! Why had it taken so long to move from licking stamps to peeling stamps? It all made sense to me, yet …
