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Are We Watching the Right Games? I did not watch the 2024 Olympics, nor the Paralympics for disabled athletes either.…
Election Demographics: The Impact of the Youth Vote The past few years, I’ve heard folks claim that young people, the…
TALKING TO MACHINES? What does it mean to be human in the age of AI (Artificial Intelligence)? We’re still figuring…
Who Goes Here and There? As the new administration dives into mass deportation of “illegals” with both feet, I remember…
Disasters In the News Disasters have been big news the past month. The devastating California wildfires were followed by the…
The Big Game So, the 2025 Super Bowl happened in New Orleans on Sunday, Feb. 9. On a national stage,…
Who’s Talking? Can We Talk or Not? A few months into the new administration, I find myself musing on conversation…
Reading a Book Together My brother and I recently read a book together. Well, not exactly together, but more like…
Writing and Finishing My Book/Novel So, I just finished my book/novel. It’s titled The Sheriff Kills Kids. I feel both…
Reading Headlines and Tea Leaves Reading headlines on the current administration, I frame them in context of my own time…
A Tale of Two Kitties: Bloody in Tooth and Claw A few weeks back, one of my cats bit the…
Wherever I Go, There I Am: Challenges of Solo Travel A couple weeks back, I took a solo trip to…
Virgin Sacrifices: The Texas Flash Floods and Epstein Two current news threads highlight the perils of growing up female in…
Life Intervenes So, I took a fall in early October 2025, a little over two months ago now. This was…
Introduction: The Hologram of Fading Democracy This is an existential moment; we retell ourselves identity and origin stories while democracy…
Introduction: The Enigma of Mar-a-Lago Following the Mar-a-Lago search and aftermath, I think of Abraham Lincoln. “You can fool all…
Introduction: Witnessing Disaster Porn Photos, videos, and stories from Hurricane Ian crowd my phone. Over in Florida, yet it feels…
The Ebb and Flow of the Sexes War Considering the state of our nation, I think about what used…
High School Girls and Global Events Sitting in a coffee shop, I have a gaggle of Catholic high-school girls to…
Loneliness in Modern Society Earlier this year, the US Surgeon General issued a public health advisory titled Our Epidemic of…