Recently, I was informed that there was to be a hearing regarding Anthony W., the man who murdered my mother in 1985. I was visibly shaken, because I had been mistakenly informed that he had died years ago. I really didn’t know how to respond. So many years had passed and I had reluctantly adjusted
As I’m writing this March 2026 Newsletter, I realized that it would be so easy to withdraw from all that is happening in the world. To protect my heart and be safe and secure in my small, but familiar world. But, as someone once wrote: Ships are safe at harbor, but that is not what ships
Someone in one of my workshops asked a young girl from Iraq why she sounded so calm when she talked about being called a “terrorist” simply because she was wearing a hijab. The young girl looked sadly away and replied, “That’s not what hurt, because I get called that all the time. What hurt was
It is so hard to be living in the times we are in because there are so many lies, layers and layers of hatred and fear being spread by this Trump administration. I was listening to an interview of Joan Baez by Dan Rather, in which she commented on how hard the times were, being
On the weekend of August 16 – 17, 2025, we are inviting folks all over the country to celebrate The 30th Anniversary of The Color of Fear – The Conversation Continues with a free showing of The Color of Fear and hosting a discussion afterwards. StirFry Seminars will provide a FREE limited 3-day film link
One of the great myths is that if we have lots of different folks from various groups represented that we have created a “community.” In actuality it’s a whole lot more complex than that, as most groups have discovered when conflicts and misunderstandings begin to accumulate because of the myriad of cultural, gender, generational and global differences.
Charles Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” I guess that best describes the year in retrospect for many of my friends and myself. We had such high hopes that Kamala Harris could transform the political, economic, social, and environmental direction of this country. We were ready for a break from all the polarization and hate-filled proposals from those promoting fear and blame.
We are on the cusp of yet another presidential election, one that will determine whether we continue living in fear, separated and divided or working together towards a better world. Someone once said that discrimination was put on this earth to teach us compassion and love.
It is October and the leaves will soon be changing. I was born in October in the year 1946 under the auspices of Scorpio. Even when I write it out, 1946… it sounds so long ago… maybe because in reality, it really is. I will be seventy-eight years old. In two more years I will