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Because I’m blessed, but also, because I’m a writer and therefore accursed with all the selfish, self-doubting sensibilities writers share, this past Memorial Day weekend I drove from Los Angeles — through green-gold, straw-yellow, and baked-red foothills dotting the California coast — to Monterey. I...
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Continuing its odious tradition of ducking and dodging transparency and accountability in how the state puts its prisoners to death – (purportedly) in the name of the people – the beleaguered Alabama Office of the Attorney General has asserted in a new convoluted, churlish, and...
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I’ve read a lot of commentary on Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” and most progressive takes are it’s no big deal. Some point out the horrible things her father has said. Kathy Griffin came out with a tweet begging her not to...
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Today is Memorial Day. Well, at least it was when I wrote this column. When it comes around Memorial Day always awakens something within me that is unique and difficult to explain. It is a warm holiday. When I say “warm” I do not mean...
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So the NFL owners, terrified that Trump would send a mean tweet their way or that MAGA hat wearing fans would turn the channel from football to NASCAR, decided to capitulate and sell out their players by banning kneeling during the playing of the national...
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“You have your mother’s eyes, high cheek bones and big smile,”is what others tell me when I show them a picture of my mom. Inwardly I cringe, wanting to give them a snarky reply, but instead I politely thank them and immediately change the subject....
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We aren’t the weeds in the crack of life. We’re the strong,amazing flowers that found a way to grow in the most challenging conditions Jeanne McElvaney, Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story I was recently diagnosed with severe, chronic PTSD — “like combat soldiers have,” the woman...
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I wanted to do something different this year than honor my mother on Mother’s Day. Don’t get it twisted. My mother was a saint and deserves kudos for raising five boys. But this year I want to honor my second mom and that’s my best...
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