World eyes are turned on Covid-19. The different parts of it are parsed, how “front-line” workers are affected, who front line workers are, in a constantly expanding definition that always includes doctors, nurses, EMT, police, but rarely janitorial crews, health assistants who clean units, kitchen staff, but that sometimes acknowledges […]
As I am a citizen of the world, I have friends from many of the world’s cultures and ethnicities. I relish their differences and value our commonalities and celebrate our uniqueness. If I have one Bengali friend I do not assume that all Bengalis do or should act like her […]
I had three other blogs prepared to reopen my website activity. And then t George Floyd was murdered and filmed so we could see his pain, of bystanders yelling for the police to get off of him until he passed out and died. The video was shown again and again […]
I love bookstores. On more than one occasion I have said, by way of introduction, “My name is devorah and I am a bookaholic.” I love independent bookstores that have core values and intriguing book offerings. Bookstores, independent bookstores are a bastion of free speech, free thinking. That is why […]
Once again 9/11. 9/11 the anniversary of Allende’s government being overthrown in Chile as part of a CIA planned coup. 9/11 the day the World Trade Center falls and Pentagon terrorist actions. And if the hundreds of engineers who say the buildings could not have gone down because of a fire […]
Of course, there were always hurricanes. Saharan winds astir with West Atlantic seas traveled west crossing the Atlantic. But there are those who say the character has changed since the days of American slavers. African storms, born on African shores now cross the Atlantic gaining strength and bearing down on […]
My mouth is full of porcupine needles. I pull them out one at a time. There is so much to say and nothing more to say about the virulent public rise of Neo-Nazis, KKK and other White Supremacists Americans. It is not just the horrors of Charlottesville or the impressive […]
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the various resistance efforts around the globe and at home. I grew from a child of peace to a woman of peace and have never seen bombing as the right tool. All terrorism is wrong. Years ago I wrote a piece as […]
I trained with and then worked for California Lawyers for the Arts as a mediator. When I began the training it was not so much an altruistic way to help the arts community, but a skill I needed to develop for myself- listening better, hearing more. The idea of helping […]
This weekend after finding excuse after excuse not to watch the recently released documentary Cries for Syria my husband put it on the television telling me I had to see it. I watched, I cried, I watched, I cried. As the Trump regime soap opera goes on and jokes are […]
