In precisely 10 hours, I’m on a bus…

…I and umpteen men, women and children on 80 buses will leave Connecticut for the trip south to the Women’s March on  Washington. We leave at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, arrive in D.C. around 7 a.m., make our ways to the march, and proceed to be very loud. Oh, and we’ll take copious pictures. This is …

Ladies (and gentlemen)? We march.

This is a Google map of the warming stations that are opening in and around the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday. It struck me this weekend that about the time the inaugural balls are winding down, and the new president is taking to Twitter to create his sham of a reality, my bus from Middletown, …

I’m on a bus on Jan. 21

Friends of mine have been talking about participating in the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21. I’d meant to get to this, but finally my friend Melissa texted me, and how can I keep dragging my feet? I? Cannot wait. We’re only there for 12 hours but I intend it to be a very …

Greater love…

A Kenyan Muslim who shielded Christians from an attack by members of the terrorist group al-Shabaab in December has died of his wounds. In an interview before he died, Salah Farah said this: “They told us if you are a Muslim, we are safe. There were some people who were not Muslim. They hid their heads,” he said. …

RIP, Aldene Burton

We don’t know all the details yet, but graceful writer and gentle soul Aldene Burton died Monday after he was hit by a bus in Wethersfield, Conn. Aldene had been homeless for years, though he’d recently been housed. He was an advocate. He was a warrior. And we will miss him.