Writing the good read
I’m depressed today. Nothing like giving away something to make me feel better, right? So I’m going to post links to three stories, all recent. Succinctly tell me why I’m so upset (beyond the obvious). The closest answer gets a hard copy of the book California on publication, July 8. 1. The obvious: Oregon school…
Every time I hear something about the Trayvon Martin case, I feel sick to my stomach. There is no case, ever, in which it’s okay that a 17 year old dies of a gunshot wound. Part of what angers me is the case itself. George Zimmerman may very well have felt his life was in…
You might think that your words and actions — talking of putting people in the “cross-hairs” and putting gun-sites on various districts — don’t matter. But they do. Didn’t you teach your children to think before they speak? Did you tell them that what they say and the words they choose matter? Maybe not, given…