Tag: political ideas

After three flights totaling eighteen hours in the air, I arrived with incredibly swollen feet—in Hong Kong—three days before a ten-day tour of mainland China. The group on the tour organizes around the central theme that peace with China is in everyone's best interest. They study the results of policies…

Try to remember a time when you believed strongly in something. Maybe it was Santa Claus, maybe it was the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, maybe it was Y2K and you thought it would shut down the grid. Whatever comes to mind, I’m telling you this: you made decisions, took actions…

A metaphor for the Red/Blue divide in America Toward the end of my book, my politically liberal friend who raised his family in a predominantly conservative suburb says, “I had an understanding all of us were the same. We all wanted healthy kids, families, nice homes and safe neighborhoods. We all…

I feel like we spend most of our time as women, trying to patch up and make the most of the system we inherited. Nana scored on this one. I’m told she wore it all the time!  Let’s talk about politics because it’s such a rare topic (tongue in cheek).…