When I am asked how I feel after the election, I hardly know how to answer. I am in a state of disbelief, but “devastated” and “disgusted” will have to suffice for the moment. I aspire to being merely “depressed” and “disappointed,” perhaps in a couple of weeks. Today, I can’t even cry. I believe […]

There is plenty to be concerned about regarding Donald Trump’s current appointments and those who are being proposed. There is nepotism and conflict of interest galore. There are the candidates who are being celebrated by white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan; a vice president who appears to be eager to re-institute torture as an […]

We can’t all be wrong. I was gratefully pleased to learn that Hillary Clinton won the election, on Nov. 8, and Donald Trump lost. Hillary ends up with more people voting for her than against her. The true reason she is not our next president is because it was set up by men, so that […]

Hillary Clinton gave a dignified concession speech wherein she wore purple and appears to have had others wear purple. Purple, a color of mourning? I am mourning, as many are. Or purple, a combination of the stability of blue (Democrats) and the fierce energy of red (Republicans)? When shall we come together? When shall we […]

In spite of the post-election despair, I’m looking beyond to three things that may happen in 2021, five years away: • Political sanity: I hope the U.S. will have survived and learned from the last of its five greatest traumas, in three of which I’ve lived – its shaky beginning, the Civil War, the Great Depression, […]