On this, the anniversary of the horrible Newtown shooting

I love you.  

On Sunday, five years ago…

…an F5 tornado blew Joplin, Mo., to thunder. It destroyed a third of the town, debarked the trees, and left people staring at piles of rubbles-that-used-to-be-homes. In the aftermath I started reading local writer Carolyn Trout’s work. Here’s her latest, on the anniversary: Today we mark the fifth anniversary of the Joplin tornado.  It is …

We are still married

This will be today’s only post, as we are beginning a long weekend to celebrate our 22nd anniversary, an occasion for which, I believe, the gift is irony, though this says copper. We got married in the backyard of a house we’d just bought together in 1993, on a beautiful September day. The clouds parted, the family gathered, and …

Do you know what yesterday was?

Yeah, the anniversary got right by me, too, but on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court ruled that citizens are guaranteed a certain amount of privacy, and that includes the right to make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives. You can read more about the case, Griswold v. Connecticut, here. Sadly, we have not come …