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The Beauty of the Breakup Album
My husband’s girlfriend’s husband just called me up. How messed up is that. Everyone over the age of sixty should have a pair of Millennial children. Even if it requires you to adopt late in life. Just to keep a … Continue reading
A Shared Approach to Addressing Our Housing Crisis
The United States is experiencing a severe housing crisis. Cities with high housing demand are woefully short of supply. Over the past two decades, monthly rents have increased 40% more than wages. Over the past two generations, the ratio of … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, United States
Tagged Affordable Housing, Housing Crisis, Shared Housing
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Good Catholic Boys: Reject thy Church
“A reminder that Catholics should not support LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful to children.” Thomas Tobin, Bishop of Rhode … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Bishop Thomas Tobin, Catholic Church, Clergy abuse, Gay Pride, Lapsed Catholics, LBGT, LGBTQ
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“You’re Lucky”
“You’re Lucky.” I hear that phrase every day. Sometimes more than once. It’s the ubiquitous response I receive from folks when they learn that I live in Cambridge, that I travel by bike, that I retired at age 58, that … Continue reading
Reconsidering Righteousness
In Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain writes, “most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.” This implies that we go through the storm and come into the light. Though I agree that the self-righteous are intolerable, … Continue reading
First Kiss Girl / First Kiss Boy
I woke this morning to the memories of first kiss; a rather pleasant way to greet the day. My first real kiss arrived unexpectedly in 1971. My family had recently moved to Oklahoma; I was invited to a party … Continue reading
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The longer I live, the less I understand religion. I don’t understand why humans crave order and answers so much that we proclaim as truths what are, at best, idealized fables; why we hate our fellow man and why we … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Uncategorized
Tagged Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
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If You’re Going to Steal our Title, at Least Give Us the Bucks
According to Work + Money Magazine, six of the ten highest paid jobs of 2017 have one thing in common. That’s in addition to the fact that they are male-dominated techie-jobs with elusive descriptions that didn’t exist a generation ago. … Continue reading
Thanks to the Academy…
This Sunday night, the Oscars will be broadcast across America, across the World. The Academy Awards are our cultural State of the Union. The annual pulchritude parade reflects our social and aesthetic coherence—and dissonance—by applauding achievement in that squiggly gap … Continue reading
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