Category: injustice

  • Flying Thoughts

    Last time I flew Delta, the napkin that came with my little cup of coffee proclaimed the airline had been “Carbon neutral since 2020,” which might lead you to believe they are not emitting carbon; there’s a class action lawsuit pending now, which Delta is fighting. The writer of today’s napkin blurb stayed in safe…

  • “Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin I was struck this morning by the feelings that came up in a fastwrite about childhood. After reading it over, then turning to a review of recent news, I felt the endless echo of bullying and…

  • https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/sexual-assault-hotline-record-bn/index.html

  • dear iphone

    Dear iphone, We are not so different, you and I, aside from the blood pumping in my veins and our obvious size difference, me so large and pillowy soft compared to your flat hard rectangular slipperiness. Oh, you go everywhere with me, like a shadow or a best friend (but maybe you are more shadow…

  • Dear Senator Portman

    Dear Senator Portman, Can you tap into that part of your soul that unlocks and opens up with compassion for your neighbor? You did once. Part of me, that hopeful, naïve girl raised in a suburb that was “nice” and had “good schools” believes you can. That’s the sliver of me that tenaciously refuses to…

  • somehow, we have to be the light.

    I took my car to the dealership this afternoon. I brought my work along, dreading having to tune out the flash and blare of the ginormous big-screen TV in the “customer lounge.” Ironically, the last time I was at the dealer, trying to ignore the television, it was Inauguration day. Me, a woman who hasn’t…

  • casting stones For Maribel Trujillo-Diaz, deported last week to Mexico In the dark before dawn the birds sang as Maribel was snatched off the streets by ICE agents— her four American-born children, ages 3, 10, 12, and 14, never got to say goodbye to their mother In Fairfield she worked processing chicken parts primary breadwinner…

  • It′s a day to remember America was not great back when you were a white child in the white suburbs outside Toledo, in a brand-new tract home in a place called Sylvania.

  • A letter to my chiropractor: When I saw you last December, your warm fingers on my neck felt reassuring — it’s pure trust, letting someone adjust your spine. “Relax,” you commanded, for I was tense. The muscles surrounding my precious cervical vertebrae relaxed into your palms. I told you I was tense because I was worried,…

  • Dear Judge Ruehlman, I’m a registered voter and I’m not going to mince words here. I’m going to be straight with you. It’s time for you to go home, Judge. You’re drunk— drunk with judicial power, that is. Maybe it’s a side effect of how our justice system works, or doesn’t work? Maybe some counseling…