What’s the Real Story Behind the Armed Man in JC Penney?

January 19, 2013

The latest thing trending on Facebook is a picture allegedly taken by a woman named Cynthia Marie Yorgason and then reposted by Girls of Fire, a group for female gun enthusiasts. According to news reports, the assault rifle was unloaded, but the man, identified as Joseph Kelley, was also carrying a loaded Glock. In one report, Kelley said [...]

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My Love Is Hard To Bear

January 12, 2013

Years ago, when I was a teenager, I volunteered in a retirement home. One day, a family came in to visit a loved one and they had a three-year-old foster child with them. She was a very big girl for her age and she looked sad. I gravitated toward her, wanting to cheer her up. [...]

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What We Don’t See While We Are Crying: Stray Thoughts on Les Miserables & Contemporary Society

January 3, 2013

100 years or so from now, there will be another Les Miserables, and another audience that does not recognize its own social wrinkles in the distant folds of history. They will rail against injustices and cheer for another Jean Valjean — perhaps this one dogged by a 21st century three-strikes law that mindlessly, soullessly imprisons men [...]

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When A Lion Gives Birth To A Lamb

December 20, 2012

I had no other place to put it, you see. You were born, (and with you, so many other things), and there was no one else to take the excess. I worried that it would be too much. There was all this love — a powerful, wholly bright, and breathtaking surge of love unlike anything [...]

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The 2nd Amendment. Is the Intent Clear?

December 16, 2012

Like many people, I have had conflicting feelings about guns and gun control. I have never personally owned a gun, but as a single woman, I’ve thought about it. I would, I think, consider having one if I lived out in the middle of nowhere or in a neighborhood in which I felt unsafe. I [...]

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News, Rumors, Speculation, Truth, Lies – Do We Even Differentiate Anymore?

December 16, 2012

When tragedy strikes, it’s natural to want the details. We want answers to all of our “why” questions, and perhaps some way to make sense of the senseless. Unfortunately, in an era of instant news, we’ve come to expect — and news outlets have begun to pander to — fast, even if wildly incorrect, answers. [...]

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