First posted September 26, 2016 Recently, on several occasions, I have found myself coming to tears and something even deeper than tears in the strangest situations. These situations always seem to have something to do with these United States of America and what they were meant to be. You see, down deep I am a conservative and a progressive. I am a conservative because I so passionately believe in what this country is meant to be that I am brought to tears when we are remi

First posted on September 22, 2016. I understand Hillary. I understand her because I am a woman who has listened to the intimate stories of thousands of women all over the world. I understand her because I am almost fifteen years her senior and have lived through the same social, political and cultural phases of our society with a little more of a perspective on the changes that were occurring during those years of great change for the women of this culture and this planet. I

First posted September 19, 2016. Hillary needs to remember that a President serves all the people – even the “Deplorables.” Both Hillary and Trump are “confused” by the rhetoric, insanity, hurt and anger in this country. Anything we feed grows and we have been “feeding” the wrong impulses. One of the principles on which this country was built was that everyone – every group – has a littlie piece of the truth and we need all those pieces to be able to glimpse the whole. This w