Month: February 2018

The Environmental Defense Fund has designated today, February 27, International Polar Bear Day, to highlight the distress and instability polar bears confront because climate change has devastated their home. The EDF website has a beautiful Polar Bear Day slide show that will lighten your heart, make you smile, educate you and show just how much Read More

I have worked extensively as an attorney representing victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse, not only as an attorney but also as a court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem,  since the 1990s.  This work is in the front lines of stopping the violence of domestic and sexual abuse that has devastated so many of my clients, Read More

On Presidents’ Day, nestled in the middle of Black History Month, I celebrate the magnificent country in which we have the privilege and honor to live. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, seminal documents of our Founding Fathers, expect us, as citizen critics, to safeguard our form of government, a democratic republic. It is our Read More

I first learned of Repairers of the Breach while watching Joy Reid, the host of AM Joy on MSNBC, interview Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, who is the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach. Rev. Dr. Barber served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, the largest state conference in the South, from 2006 Read More

“We have loved them during life; let us not abandon them until we have conducted them by our prayers into the house of the Lord.” St. Ambrose Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls, and the souls of all Read More

From the United States Senate: https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/SFRC_chairs_Biographies.htm Senator Arthur Vandenberg (1884-1951) of Michigan delivered a celebrated “speech heard round the world” in the Senate Chamber on January 10, 1945, announcing his conversion from isolationism to internationalism. In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, Vandenberg became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Asserting that we must stop “partisan politics Read More

As an attorney in legal services, I represented many victims of domestic violence. My representation of battered women was specifically funded by VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, passed in 1994. These clients inspired me every day.  I watched them blossom, with the seeds of courage planted deep within, nurtured by family and friends, who Read More

Below is a link to the NYT article from Saturday, February 10, 2018 about Joy Reid, host of AM Joy on Saturday and Sunday mornings, 10:00 – 12:00 on MSNBC. I believe she is the best news host on television. She’s smart, passionate, extremely well-informed, and committed to bringing fair, lively discussions on issues that Read More

I love bees. I love butterflies. I love them not just for their ineffable beauty but for all of the good work they do to sustain our food supply by helping our flowers and vegetables reproduce. We take their constant support for granted, but we should not. Our pollinators – birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, Read More

From The New York Times: Unwelcome Attention for John Kelly, the Man Enlisted to Bring Calm President Trump is calling the chief of staff he pushed out, Reince Priebus, to complain about John Kelly, the chief of staff who took Mr. Priebus’s place. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/us/politics/kelly-trump.html As an attorney with more than 35 years experience helping women Read More