As I read Daily Plate of Crazy’s Girl Gaps, a post that reflects on women in-and-out of the workplace, ponders male/female inequity, and the stereotypes society hands out like Halloween candy to our children, I couldn’t help but think about a piece I wrote a decade ago. I audited a creative writing class during the summer of 2003, and one … Read More
Is America to Blame?
“America is to blame,” my local radio station quoted the mother of the Boston bombings suspects. Soon after the standoff with the two brothers ended, this recorded news report played over and over. At first, I was incensed. How dare she say that America is to blame for this atrocity? To blame us for her sons’ brutality. And … Read More