In the wealthy USA where 99% of people have running water and adequate sanitation, authorities are not kind to moms without resources. The surrounding geographic area often has resources like running water that a mother can access without charge and at most hours of the day. The water is more accessible than to most mothers in Bangladesh, more accessible than clean water is to 633 Million people on this planet in this day and age. Americans sponsor projects to get…..
The “Freedom Caucus” proposes removing maternity care from required health services in federal health care plans. It is their worst idea yet. Lately, the Freedom Caucus champions a freedom that means freedom for them, and for the rest of us means nothing left to lose. Worst of all, their version of perfect is detrimental to the community good. – The Freedom Caucus is virulently against a large federal government. As far as I can tell, they are against health care…..
So small French towns have decided that women’s modest swimwear is the equivalent to the black arm bands students got in trouble for wearing to protest the Viet Nam war. If they were, being from the USA freedom of speech, I would expect their protest to be respected. But they are not even protesting, or weren’t at the start. These women don’t seem to be protesting or supporting anything except their convictions that God would want them to be modest…..
10. There are amazing life forms here that just don’t seem to live anywhere else, like the saguaro. 9. There are not enough plants here to fuel the fires like in California, not near here. 8. There is not enough rain here to flood for very long — it floods on over a micro area and quickly dissipates. 7. Even the name means rising rekindled from ashes. 6. It is affordable and beautiful, and there are jobs. 5. Mountains, sunshine, arid conditions…..
The rain slowed but the road was still covered with water. Visibility cleared, and the driver put the cruise control back on, hoping to maintain the 70 MPH speed limit on the rural road. A long appreciative glance the foothills of her youth let the wheel get off onto a rock shoulder. The many miles behind her left the tires bald. The noise drawing attention back, the driver overcorrected and sent the car into a spin. Soon it was going…..
I’m sure Lin-Manuel Miranda is onto something big because this musical is seeping into parts of me formerly occupied only by certain songs from The Sound of Music. Hip hop and rap are not my usual cup of tea, but here they are raised to a level beyond generational preferences, and used where their form takes on an uncanny usefulness, and beauty. I was raised on The Sound of Music, as it is my mother’s favorite. It’s in the deep…..
When I heard Ted Cruz was evoking the image of solitary five year old in a public restroom I was flabbergasted. Does he really let a five year daughter old go into a public rest room alone? Fathers, both single fathers and fathers on father-daughter excursions, have to take their young children with them to the rest room just like moms do, don’t they? The image was concocted to counter objections to a law in North Carolinaspecifying how to choose…..
What are we fighting for? “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” John Winthrop Senior, 17th Century John Winthrop Senior was the new governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony when he made this statement. His ship was about to sail for the new world carrying the Great Migration, a set of people fleeing a mandatory state religion that persecuted them. However, when he arrived, they set up a new mandatory…..
Girl Day is February 27, a day set aside to encourage girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). I had to correct the “T,” at first I typed theology. It’s been a while since theology would have generally fit on that list …hundreds of years. It fits for me in that girls in theology are still rare. My own interest in STEM started when Bell Labs gathered kids from all over Dallas and put on a show for us — maybe…..
Helping Which Other Women? When Madeleine Albright repeated in the context of current politics her famous quote “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” it made me stop and think. My decision is to vote for whoever best supports the “Little Minnows,” half of whom are women, wanted at inception by biological mom or not. And if the current woman running for office isn’t standing there, if I don’t support her that doesn’t…..