Father’s Day. For those with loving fathers, it’s a time of gratitude. For others who don’t know their dads, it hurts. A single mom told me, “I’ll never get married. I’d rather raise my kids alone. I don’t need some man making my life miserable.” I said, “Maybe you feel that way because you’ve never […]
Today I gave a young man a spirit message from his dead mother. I know, weird. I’m not a small medium at large. I’m not a psychic. It just happened. There I was, waiting for my sandwich-soup combo, and the 20-something-year-old behind the counter was about to hand me my food. Then he paused and […]
I talked to fifth-graders at Tucker School in Milton about the art of opinion writing. Those ten-year-olds were taller than I am! It took me back to 1965 when some kids in my own fifth grade used to call me “shrimp,” “midget” or “tiny tot.” Ah, childhood and its future effects on self-expression. As a […]
Bruce Jenner makes the transgender journey into womanhood as Caitlyn Jenner. What do I do with that? Does it have anything to do with me? It does. At first I dismissed it as publicity mongering, feeling his position of wealth and notoriety placed him far from the typical transgender experience of shame, frequent abuse and […]
The dead have badges and I stop to read them: 1941 World War 1945, Women’s Relief Corps.147, The American Legion and more. Small American flags flutter next to soldiers’ graves at the Milton (Mass.) Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day. At a glance souls, long gone, wave across the acres, “Over here!” “I served!” […]