Baltimore native, Poet Adrienne Rich, has died. I have her book, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962. It was one of many things given to me by my grandmother — long before she passed. The copy she left me (a collectible) was not read but boxed away for when I …
Sad Songs
I boarded my flight ready to sleep. Hope was dashed when I ended up next to a woman with a history of “working in government”. A history she was was ripe to share, with someone, anyone, preferably the person in the seat next to her — ME. I rank plane …
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Circa 2007
via Balloon Juice Professor Warren, in her capacity as a specialist in bankruptcy law, uses actual facts & statistics to back up her Cassandra predictions. Despite the Burkean vapors of Brooks & Doubthat, she pins the decline of the American middle class not to our moral decay and piggish consumerist …
Shoe Salon Folly and Feminist Badness
“No one who likes women would wear those shoes.” “I love these shoes.” “You do women no favors by wearing those shoes.” “My woman legs love these shoes; they look good in these shoes” “You are no feminist, no supporter of women” I was out with some folks from work …




