Featured Artist
Thanks to Sanctuary Magazine for kicking off Women’s History Month with me as their featured artist. As a feminist and an artist, I could not be prouder to start March off with a bang. Kudos to the...
View ArticleLois Lane Black Like Me
Imagine today an award-winning white reporter from a big city newspaper posing as an African American for an investigative piece. Would New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman be willing to don...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Home Run
“Defending democracy not diminish it.” Joe Biden State of the Union Address 2024 Joltin Joe came out swinging last night in the well of Congress. President Biden hit one home run after another in a...
View ArticleOn International Women’s Day Remember The Hamas Hostages
As we celebrate International Women’s Day today it is imperative that we speak of the girls and women, mothers and daughters, aunts and friends who have been kidnapped in GAZA since October 7, 2023....
View ArticleKatie’s Krazy Kaffee Klatch
Sitting around the comfortable kitchen table with America’s newest favorite housewife Katie Britt shooting the breeze, was intended to make you feel you were spending time with a familiar folksy...
View ArticleMy Father Danced with Iris Apfel When No One Else Would
Eighty-eight years ago at a high school mixer, while the gym floor was crowded with couples dancing, my 15-year-old father Marvin kept his eye on another 15-year-old, a shy female friend leaning...
View ArticleJoin The White Patriarchy
This cartoon detail from a 1977 alternative comic book called Young Lust. Art by Paul Navrides published by Last Gasp, Berkeley CA. Is this the America today’s Republicans want to return to? If this...
View ArticleThe Bible and the Con Man
And the Lord said unto you Let there be grift And lo, Donald Trump answered the Lord’s Command Two Corinthians 3:17 What do vodka, steaks, sneakers, and The Apostles have in common? They all have...
View ArticleA Birthday Wish
Today I enter the last year of a decade I tip-toed into in 2015 with some bemusement and a not without a touch o’ disbelief. Today I turn 69 and to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration...
View ArticleTrump’s Easter Message
Donald Trump will never be a living symbol of anyone’s faith Does anyone actually believe Donald Trump cracked open a single one of his God Bless the USA Bibles on Easter Sunday? Nah, the...
View ArticleAccess Your Rights
In a world of Marjorie Taylor Greens be an Alice Paul. As women’s access to reproduction rights is rapidly diminishing, the lesson that every new generation has to fight for the same rights to protect...
View ArticleRobert Kennedy Breaks the News of Martin Luther Kings Assasination
Fifty Six years ago on Thursday, April 4th Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis campaigning for the Democratic nomination when he was told of Martin Luther King’s Death. When the news was broken to him,...
View ArticleTrump’s Myopic Vision of Christian Visibility Day
Trump stared directly at the Sun during an eclipse, limiting his ability to see the Christian majority in America Someone needs their eyes checked. Donald Trump has vowed to establish a “Christian...
View ArticleShake, Rattle, and Moe!
Moe in his earthquake high-alert mode While some were shaking in their boots this morning, for my dog Moe, the earthquake in the northeast was a big snoozer. Literally. He slept through it all. This...
View ArticleTotal Eclipse of the Sun Playing it Safe
I neglected to get a pair of special solar eclipse glasses for Monday’s big event so Sunday evening was spent franticly scrounging in my basement for a sturdy cardboard box to use as an alternative...
View ArticleSolar Eclipse Glasses Amaze As Advertised
For a brief time on Monday, masses of Americans were not glued to their iPhones but gazing upward at the sky. Thank you Mother Nature for this this healthy reset in the human experience. To take time...
View ArticleIt May Be 1864 in Arizona But Roevember is Coming
In 2024 right-wing Christian Nationalists are burning through women’s rights with the same fury and zeal as General Sherman did in 1864 when he destroyed and burned down everything in his path in his...
View ArticleOJ Simpson Dead at 76
O.J. Simpson’s time has finally run out. I guess O.J. will never find the killers who murdered his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Maybe they are already in Hell, where...
View ArticleThe Travesty of Trump Tower and Bonwit Teller
Trump Tower rose in the ashes of impeccable taste Trump Tower lives to see another day. For now, the tacky gold emblazoned skyscraper remains untouched by the New York courts, much like Trump himself....
View ArticleUsing My Voice
I’m a 69-year-old storyteller by profession but for decades couldn’t tell my own. More than just tongue-tied, my uncomfortable relationship with words often led me to consider myself not only shy, but...
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