4 days agoA Baby’s Sacred Until They’re BornThere are lots of opinions about abortion, and lots of passion. The one thing I rarely hear about, though, is the sacredness of human life after pregnancy is over. …Abortion3 min read
Apr 14Dear White People: Shut Up About Will Smith1.7K46Savannah WorleyI agree that the holier than thou attitude needs to stop.I agree that the holier than thou attitude needs to stop. But don't tell me to shut up unless you want to continue the conversation marred by polarization already. I am a white woman full of nuance and my opinions are changing. I work on violence that is in all…1 min read
Apr 9Is That a Monster in the Mirror?: From Parenting to PoliticsWhen I was very young, it was not uncommon for either of my parents to say I was “spoiled”. I sometimes helplessly retaliated: “Well, you spoiled me!” but it was never satisfying to me internally or even believable, even to myself. I was given a lot of things and let’s…Parenting9 min read
Mar 22The Pressure to be One-Sided about UkraineI am not immune. Putin is bad, perhaps crazy, he is a dictator who is presently egregiously aiming to break the will of Ukraine through armed attacks that are killing civilians and the most vulnerable of them, including pregnant mothers. He is trying to destroy the possibility of Ukraine becoming…Ukraine5 min read
Feb 28Are you Experiencing Juggling Fatigue? A Cure is on its Way!No this is not SNL material — at least not yet — though they’re free to use it — that is while this particular freedom might still be in place, you know the freedom of speech. Before I go deeper, let me say I recognize that a vast part of…Ukraine6 min read
Feb 2Being Jewish is Being Part of a Race but Are we So Pathetically Delicate that We Can’t Have a Dialogue About it?I love Whoopi Goldberg, period. She should not be suspended by ABC because of an opinion that I feel is simply a mistake. She felt Nazism was a set of human crimes and she was looking at it as a humanist. I get it and in a fundamental way I…Whoopi Goldberg2 min read
Dec 9, 2021Have You Heard of the Guantanamo Olympics?No, I didn’t think so. Okay I’ll tell you. It is an international committee on human rights that will ask detainees in Guantanamo if they are being treated well. So far the only nation to veto the proceedings, appears to be the United States. Perhaps what makes a headline a…China2 min read
Dec 1, 2021If They Had Only Known: If We had Only Known, and Now that we DoOnce upon a time, I sat in a history class in Brooklyn College where a largely Jewish group of students fervently argued the case against the bulk of German citizens knowing about the Holocaust and about concentration camps. It couldn’t have been, we insisted, and we really didn’t want to…Torture8 min read
Nov 20, 2021For Thanksgiving: Thank you “Belfast”While there was nothing psychedelic about it, literally speaking, it feels there could have been. It is mystical and beautiful and sentimental and carries you — it carried me to places very very deep inside. …Belfast4 min read
Oct 22, 2021Oh Jews of Texas!It’s hard to avoid the news cycles and their drama though I do try. However the sounds from the neighboring room, were about Texas and about a town meeting regarding comments by a school official having to do with the teaching of the Holocaust. …Jews4 min read