Category: on our Nation

  • STUFF!

    “You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.” Stewart Emery “Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.” George Carlin “If we have become a people so self-centered that we are willing to step over a lifeless body to get…

  • An Unlikely Activist

    Something is up when someone like me—who never followed politics—finds herself crying at the energy behind health care policy. In fact, I skipped a gorgeous afternoon to be home for the 2:30 pm Organizing for America (OFA) event– with President Obama himself. My nine-year old even accepts that I’m not joining the relatives on the…