Friday, September 28, 2018

We're Mad as Hell and We're Not Going to Take it Anymore

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No.  Not me.  The Senate Republicans.  They came out swinging today, furious at the "sham process" -- waaah?  Did I miss somethi...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Holding Dr. Ford and the Country in Love and Compassion

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As I watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, I am holding her and all other women who have ev...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Is My God a Holy They?

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For years in my new thought circles we have said "Mother-Father God" as a way to include the Mother, include the Goddess in our ...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

"Everything I need is right here" Really?

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"Everything you need is right here," said the young woman behind the counter of the Philadelphia Airport food counter as she han...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Feeling and Breathing the Northern California Wildfires

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The saying goes, there are four seasons in California: flash floods, mudslides, wildfires and pride parade.  At this point we're deep ...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

I Don't Have to Tell People I'm Setting a Boundary

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I like to think that I know something about boundary setting, but I actually have only learned a few things, and highly imperfectly.  For th...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Summer Junk Food for the Mind

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Where do you stand on junk reading?  I go back and forth.  For years I have alternated "quality" literature--like deep spiritual...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Feel the Slow Sweet Good Love of Mister Rogers (aka God)--5 Snouts up for Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) 5 enthusiastic Snouts up ( Understand my Snout-Based Rating system)  for Wont You Be My Neighbor? The movie about Fred aka...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Hurry to see the Hilarious Thanksgiving Play at Cap Stage

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) Five enthusiastic snouts up (see Understanding the Snout-Based Rating System)  for The Thanksgiving Play  by Larissa FastHor...
Monday, July 02, 2018

The Path not Taken--Some Version of me is a Fighting Death Penalty Cases Right Now

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You ever have a strong sense of the road not taken in your life?  Not necessarily regret, but just a sense of what might have been if.  So...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Five Snouts Up for PBS' Little Women--an early feminist masterpiece

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) ( click here to understand my snout-based rating system ) for Masterpiece's recent 2 part adaptation of Louisa May Alcot...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Bless Donald Trump for helping us remember who we are

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All evil and harm that is done in the world is done because we forget who we are.  We forget that we are one.  We forget that when we harm...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

For Fathers Day: Return Immigrant Children to Their Parents Immediately

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As a new thought minister, it is difficult to know what to add to what Stephen Colbert says above--where to begin with the daily heartb...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

If Addiction is a spiritual problem, how is it also a disease? Part 3: Questions about Addiction and Treatment Raised by Unbroken Brain

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Okay this seems to have turned into a series of articles on the questions raised by the book Unbroken Brain  by Maia Szalavitz.  Today...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Does Shame and Blame Work with Addiction?

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In yesterday's post, I reviewed the book  Unbroken Brain  and listed the questions that it raised for me.  Today I'm going to ex...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

If You're Addicted, Is it Your Fault, or Not? 5 Snouts Up for Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavitz

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) for Unbroken Brain  by Maia Szalavitz ( Understanding the snout-based rating system ).  There are people who think 12-step ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

What will it take for objectification of women to cease? How far have we moved?

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Sold at Venice Beach, CA June 9, 2018 It strikes me that the #metoo movement is burgeoning; the Miss America beauty pageant is eliminati...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

My Thoughts on the Recent California Primary and a World that Works for Everyone

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The results of Tuesday's California primary were underwhelming but could have been worse.  Turnout was low despite supposedly high act...