People use to visit cemeteries to mourn their lost loved ones. Now we visit Facebook. When my friend Grant died in 2009 from kidney failure, he didn’t have a Facebook page. He was 26, and otherwise very social, and though Facebook was popular at that time, it was not as unavoidable as it is now. […]
Like many people who deal with anxiety, I’ve learned to live with it. And I’ve hidden it well from my daughter. Or so I thought. My own fear is traceable enough, its origins obvious, but my daughter’s fear is a mystery. She’s only 8, for one. She has suffered not at all, not more than the unconscious […]
Perhaps we should look at Charlie Hebdo critically before jumping on the bandwagon of “Je Suis Charlie.” Violence, of any kind, in any circumstance is reprehensible. Is sickening. Is wrong. And concerning the violence of the last few days in France, you don’t need a recap. Twelve people were murdered in the office of a French […]
