There are aspects aplenty to controversy. When tackling fifty shades of truth, being “gray” doesn’t grow a readership. Yet life is never black and white. Family. Politics. Feminism. Race. Religion. How best to take a decisive stand on polarizing topics? It’s not a writing formula, it’s a mindset, and the following columnists share theirs. Mary […]
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 […]