Choices

All the brouhaha over contraceptives in the national news lately took me back to the middle of the last century, before science had any tried and truly reliable safe methods of birth control. In those days the choices were; calculate and abstain, or take your chances....

Is this Privacy or Something Else?

It felt a bit creepy; walking up the outside steel and cement staircase to what I hoped would be my friend, Laurel’s apartment in Austin Texas. The winter sun was warming in spite of a cool breeze, but the building and the large complex felt cold and isolated. Though...

The Countries of Well and Ill

I almost finished my oatmeal this morning, a real achievement after nearly a week of visiting that other country Susan Sontag warned us about. Having dealt with difficult diagnoses and treatments in her own life, she suggested each person is a citizen of two...

Martin and Me

Our InterPlay troupe participated in several Martin Luther King celebrations this past weekend, which got me thinking about what my kids used to call, “the olden days.” I remembered the time I almost got to meet Dr. King in person.   Dr. King was scheduled to speak at...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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