We adults must be diligent, knowledgeable, unselfish, and thoughtful. We must hold all other adults accountable for their negative contact with our children, whatever form that takes. This is a fight for the next generation and society. More important, this is a fight for all the young individuals whose happiness, stability, safety, health, and ability to thrive relies on us.
Modern readers and film audiences are brainwashed to believe that evil is in cultural practice or addictions or aliens. The reality is that the monsters who prey on vulnerable people are people who look like us and live among us. Sometimes the evil wears uniform clothing or leads successful organizations; sometimes they are charismatic and appeal to our imbedded biases. Women must teach others the truth about monsters and evil.
A short explanation for Why I Wanted You to Like Me.
Women must unite in a purposeful, positive, productive effort to undermine and eradicate the white wealthy Christian male supremacist movement that is seizing power from top to bottom. One public and political initiative that would unite women is a Public Education K-16 Initiative. Priotize public education and healthcare to win women's votes and secure their Resistance to fascism.
Women can change the outcomes, have the power to change the outcomes, and must unite to create the changes in which the outcomes empower women.
Our nation is at the Reckoning that I experienced one day in a teacher conference. Our embedded beliefs about race, culture, rights, privileges, and abilities are flawed. We must challenge the beliefs, acknowledge the flaws, confess to the harm, and create new ideas...new ideas that will grow a better stronger democracy.
Deregulated and unregulated industries, industries that are not held accountable to the public and government, are industries that prey on the most vulnerable and desperate among us. This includes the religious industry.
How can we measure how far our nation has fallen? Think about Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady. Now think about Melania Trump as First Lady. There lies the answer.
2026 is the year that Christian Believers and American Nonbelievers must take a side. The same side if they believe in justice, empathy, goodness, the Constitution, and liberty.
The most gratifying moments in relationships are those that support trust, protect voice and expression, and nurture Understanding.
Sunday mornings are good opportunities to reflect on the people who loved us, the safe places we played, the peaceful feelings that help us weather current worries and disappointments.
In USA history, our history, people have willingly believed absurdities and willingly committed, or at least approved, atrocities. Extremisms in US religion, politics, and in the divisions created by a capitalist society make this cycle difficult to break.