It’s been awhile since I posted anything, what with life and all. But as I confer with left-leaning friends and strangers alike about the depressing state of our electoral affairs, something has been nagging at me and I want to make a suggestion. It hardly bears repeating that we Democrats are in a state of confusion and anxiety as to who to vote for in the upcoming primary. At this late date, many are still undecided. Why? Here are the Read More…

One dark Thursday afternoon, Truth found herself sitting next to Lies on a subway ride heading toward a station called The Right To Exist.

Wildflowers in Point Mugu I’ve decided it’s time to bare my soul, come clean, and admit it: I don’t like hiking. I can hear the collective groan. What?? Before you get all judgmental and start leaving nasty comments about how I’m just lazy (which I am), let me make my case: First of all, I didn’t say I don’t like being out in nature, communing with trees and leaves and flowers and the earth from which I came. I said I don’t Read More…

This week it would be hard not to reference the spectacle that played out on TV, computer, tablet, and phone screens as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh took turns making their cases to a rapt American public about the sexual assault that took place nearly four decades ago. Personally, I am sick to my stomach over how the ole boys’ scenario continues to play itself out in the face of a roaring #metoo movement. The Sexual-Harasser-in-Chief and his herd Read More…

Recovering drought-resistant succulent by Pascal Giacomini Sometimes you feel like you can’t bear another day—of the crazy-making combination of hopelessness and outrage over the near-constant “breaking news” stories that feel like hammer blows to every last speck of decency left on this earth; of the universal horror experienced by usually-decent citizens upon learning that a building in their neighborhood will be transformed into permanent housing for the homeless; of watching the poorest among us having to put up with extreme Read More…