by mary1988 | Sep 23, 2019 | 2019
Did you know that the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written just after World War II, did not mention water? And that when the General Assembly voted to add the right to water and sanitation in 2010, the United States abstained from voting? Did...
by mary1988 | Sep 2, 2019 | 2019
Thank you for your support as I try to live my creative life following the wisdom of the late Toni Morrison: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak,...
by mary1988 | Aug 14, 2019 | 2019
I subscribe to The New York Times, my friends to The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers are targeted to the intellectual reader. So, why is it so difficult to discuss matters of importance? The daughter of an Irish Catholic mother and a father of...
by mary1988 | Jul 24, 2019 | 2019
I do not want to “send her back”, but welcome her, instead, with yellow roses. On August 18, 1920, thousands of yellow rose petals floated wildly through the air above Tennessee’s legislative chamber as a 24-year-old first-term Republican cast his “Aye” vote in...
by mary1988 | Jun 24, 2019 | 2019
Our climate is changing now. Extremely rapidly.Expect wetter winters and springs with heavy rain, snow events. Intensity and frequency of tornadoes, large hail, damaging thunderstorm winds.Rain events exceeding 6 inches now occur...
