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Another trip around the sun

Those of us with several trips around the sun under our belts, and a commitment to leading purposeful lives, tend to have a long history with New Year’s resolutions. I’ve written several pieces about them just on this blog, feeling compelled to acknowledge them and sometimes to repudiate them. You can’t know where you’re going […]

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This Christmas, remember the kids

As many as 14,300 kids are being held in facilities which house large numbers of migrant children, despite the fact that studies have long shown that warehousing of children leads to lasting psychological damage. It may have dropped off the headlines, but the nightmare hasn’t ended both for kids separated from their parents and for […]

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The Why

I don’t spend a lot of time navel-gazing about why I write. Some things just are, like breezes and cooking smells, my caterwauling cat and the my wonky nail on my right middle finger. (Although, full disclosure, I spend more time than is necessary wondering why my cat is insane). But why I write? It’s […]

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Immigrant

I wear my family on my back like a turtle wears her house. Read this letter for me. What if they come? What do I do? I wear my family on my armor Of stay away Of you don’t understand Of we hold our chins up high. I wear my family in the thousand tiny […]

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Hello sugarplums

I’ve been quiet on here of late. It’s not for lack of things to share, but for an insistent desire to pull out of the bonds of what’s been said and send out news, clarion and crisp. And it’s a weird time. Not bad-weird, but a shifting, rattling moment in my life. It’s as if […]

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Accidental Venice

It probably began with Madonna. There she was, dazzling beacon of my emerging girlhood, writhing on a boat in blue spandex pants against a backdrop that looked dreamed up for her Like a Virgin music video. She was amazing, expanding my idea of what it could mean to be female so far beyond the tight […]

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Ho studiato italiano a scuola

I took Italian in high school by happenstance. They only offered three languages in my tiny Catholic all-girls school: Spanish, French and Italian. Since I already spoke Spanish, that felt like a bit of a cheat. French didn’t really appeal to me. So I backed into Italian. My teacher, Ms. Fabiano, had a lilting, musical […]

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Immigration articles for students and books about immigration

Yesterday I was talking to a high school student who had been assigned a classic book on an important issue of today. You’d know the book if I told you the title. You’ve been assigned it too, probably. The unfortunate part is that the book is outdated in many ways, and doesn’t focus on the […]

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The better angels

This morning, my email homepage invited me to read about Heidi Cruz’s latest silly statement. It quoted a Vanity Fair article in which she lamented the fact that her husband Ted *only* makes $174,000 as a senator, forcing her to be the primary breadwinner with her estimated half a million dollar salary from Goldman Sachs. […]

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The last lockdown

The great tragedy of my middle age has been to finally get to unwrap the beautiful gift box of the American Dream, and to find that’s what’s contained within is not all I hoped for when I glimpsed the shiny, perfect bow from afar. I didn’t know about racism when I was growing up, or […]

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