An Open Letter to Kellyanne Conway
Dear Kellyanne – I saw your recent segment on AC 360 where you lamented that Donald Trump’s...
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Category: Culture
My 2016 Highlight: Birthing a Book
The colorful image that is to be my book cover is on my screen. I’m opening Photoshop because it needs to be squeezed into a template and I haven’t a clue how to do that. I’m going to try to teach myself. I play with cropping...
Read MoreWoohoo, Time to Choke on the Stuffing
If you add my first cousins and siblings together, you get a total of nearly 40 people. Add in spouses, cousins’ kids, aunts and uncles and I think you can see how big my Italian-American family is. More than 90 percent are in...
Read MoreA Feminist’s Glorious Moment
When I woke up the morning of Election Day 2016, I was so excited that I donned a t-shirt I hadn’t worn since buying it in West Hollywood in 2009. It’s hot pink and in white lettering it says, “This is what a feminist looks...
Read MoreThe Ugly Image in the Trump Mirror
It wasn’t until I hung up the phone with the nice woman at the senior citizens’ center that I realized what I had just agreed to do. This was last Friday. I was pitching the idea of teaching creative writing to her 50 or 60...
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