Like more than five million others, I’m an American abroad. Except for a brief window of post-COVID sanity from 2022 to 2024, for the last ten years, I’ve lived in an emotional space that spans the chasm between gratitude and guilt. I know I’m not alone. I don’t presume to speak for anyone else. Like…
Tag: American politics
It’s the Hope that Kills You
I am the lone female in a house of males. There are times this works to my advantage, like when I need someone to carry my overstuffed suitcase or reach a jug I’ve stashed on a tall shelf. There are other times when being Hannah Solo is a lot harder. Like now, on the eve…
A Word to Progressives
There’s a story I’ve been telling recently I think bears repeating. A year or two before my son started school, there was a buzz. Word on the playground was that a momentum was building. A group of neighborhood parents, priced out of NYC private schools and frustrated at the lackluster performance of the local public schools,…
Apology Not Accepted
Warning: Explicit language below I woke this morning to the news of (yet another) Trump scandal. Despite the nastiness he’s been spewing about women on the record for the last 18 months, it took the nastiness he said off the record ten years ago to finally get Donny to apologize. Sort of. Not only him, but…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 