From the Outside Looking In…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…let your pride show!  Yesterday was the Pride Parade and today is the festival – time to put on the sunscreen and get out of the house for a day of pride and celebration!

I am angry.  This video is worthy of another view.

Yesterday, T and I spent the morning making scones and watching a serious documentary highlighting the trials and tribulations of bringing a show to broadway….yes, we watched The Muppets Take Manhattan.  Enjoying some fresh cranberry scones hot out of the oven, we sat in front of the TV and geared up for what would be [...]

Today is a historical day. Even if there is still more challenge ahead to today’s California Supreme Court decision that overturns the state’s ban on gay marriage, today makes the journey to equality one step closer. Right now there is very little equality for gay couples and whatever benefits are afforded to same [...]

This is my last blog entry. I have spent the last year sharing myself with you, all of my faithful readers, and I think now is the time to step down. It has been a lot of work, work I enjoyed, just writing about my day and life experiences. Some of you [...]

This week, a local county in Virginia unanimously passed a resolution to deny certain city services to undocumented immigrants as well as give police authority to enquire about the immigration status of individuals they stop or come in contact with.  These services, like drug rehabilitation programs and some family food and economic assistance would impact the [...]

I had a wonderful opportunity to look back and see the impact I made in a former student’s life last night.  This experience was emotionally overwhelming for me as I never contemplated the seriousness that what may seem to be regular or general interactions with young people can result in such a powerful transformation of an [...]

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
There has been much social commentary regarding the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the presentations he made to both Columbia University and the United Nations.  Some are questioning the invite by the president [...]

Remember the years of old, when letter writing was a typical form of communication? Now it seems that the act of sitting and writing a letter is an art form, rarely to be done. I often wonder if our younger generations would be able to (i.e. have the patience) sit down and handwrite [...]