Kelly Salasin

Tag: President Obama

  • better than chocolate-America the Beautiful & J.T.

    For a middle aged woman like me, it doesn’t get much better than James Taylor singing American the Beautiful at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.  It’s up there with chocolate and chardonnay, an afternoon on the Seine and under the covers with my lover. The simple pleasures. Acoustic. Mellow. Sweet. Oh, beautiful, for spacious…

  • The Courage to Change–a child’s response to the Sandy Hook massacre

    “There are too many men with enough courage to kill one another, and not enough men with the courage to stop the violence.” Lee van Laer On Friday, when I learned of the shooting, I wanted to drive to the elementary school in my own town and retrieve my son.  It wasn’t that I was…