Category Archives: Middle Class

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Our Skeletal State of America: When is Thin Too Thin?

Looking like a skeleton is no longer just for Halloween; it’s the latest Hollywood trend on the fast track to becoming a beauty standard. As award seasons and fashion week converged, shockingly skeletal women were walking the red carpet and

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Watch-American Diversity Whitewash

  Make America Great Again or Make America White Again? That is the question I ask in my short, but timely video “American Diversity Whitewash” that takes apart the fake image of diversity sold to Americans for decades and how

Mother

A Mothers Day for All

Mother’s Day is a complicated day for so many of us. For those like me who no longer have a living mother yet live with their spirit and love every day it can be a difficult day of longing, deeply

Mother

A Mothers Day for All

Mother’s Day is a complicated day for so many of us. For those like me who no longer have a living mother yet live with their spirit and love every day it can be a difficult day of longing, deeply

Sleeping With Our Dogs

At this age, I may have lost count of how many people I’ve slept with in my life, but I can count on my hand the number of dogs with whom I’ve shared my bed. Only two. You always remember

Sleeping With Our Dogs

At this age, I may have lost count of how many people I’ve slept with in my life, but I can count on my hand the number of dogs with whom I’ve shared my bed. Only two. You always remember

Fast Food Fit For a King

  There was no McDonald’s delivery to the Oval Office during the King’s recent visit. Despite his love of Big Macs, Donald Trump was specifically ordered NOT to serve McDonald’s to King Charles under any circumstances. The Monarch utterly hates

Fast Food Fit For a King

  There was no McDonald’s delivery to the Oval Office during the King’s recent visit. Despite his love of Big Macs, Donald Trump was specifically ordered NOT to serve McDonald’s to King Charles under any circumstances. The Monarch utterly hates

Rape Academy- Old School

  Rape Academy is one school you never want your son to attend. A website teaching men how to sexually assault women recently went viral. A shockwave was felt when CNN uncovered an online community they describe as a massive

Rape Academy- Old School

  Rape Academy is one school you never want your son to attend. A website teaching men how to sexually assault women recently went viral. A shockwave was felt when CNN uncovered an online community they describe as a massive

Sleep Away Camp 1969

In the late 1960’s, a world before screens and social media made sexual content just a click away, a pre-teen like myself learned the facts of life at summer sleep-away camp. Late at night, when the lights went out, the

Sleep Away Camp 1969

In the late 1960’s, a world before screens and social media made sexual content just a click away, a pre-teen like myself learned the facts of life at summer sleep-away camp. Late at night, when the lights went out, the

How I Found Something Cheerful As I Mourned My Mother

I just struck ephemera gold! On the afternoon of my mother Betty’s yahrzeit, a day spent reflecting on the fact that her passing now spanned the entirety of my childhood, I learned something about Mom’s own childhood that I never

How I Found Something Cheerful As I Mourned My Mother

I just struck ephemera gold! On the afternoon of my mother Betty’s yahrzeit, a day spent reflecting on the fact that her passing now spanned the entirety of my childhood, I learned something about Mom’s own childhood that I never

Grief Has No Time Frame

Today, my mother has been gone the length of my entire childhood. 18 years. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. An entire lifetime, in fact. Yet now 18 years seems to have passed

Grief Has No Time Frame

Today, my mother has been gone the length of my entire childhood. 18 years. Those first 18 years seemed like an eternity as I was growing up. An entire lifetime, in fact. Yet now 18 years seems to have passed

Dr Trump and Diet Coke

Paging Doctor Trump-Diet Coke STAT!

  Now that we know Donald Trump was cosplaying a doctor and not the son of God on his recently posted AI-generated image, we can more readily accept his astute medical recommendations. From the stable genius who robustly recommended Clorox

Dr Trump and Diet Coke

Paging Doctor Trump-Diet Coke STAT!

  Now that we know Donald Trump was cosplaying a doctor and not the son of God on his recently posted AI-generated image, we can more readily accept his astute medical recommendations. From the stable genius who robustly recommended Clorox