We've all witnessed this scene before (at least if we've shopped at Walmart -- I honestly think that they deliberately set up a sensory assault that...
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I guess some people are not paying enough attention to Supreme Court rulings that directly address their lives: Last month, officials at Atlantic...
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Last week The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists(ACOG) magnanimously decided to "allow" laboring women to take clear...
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Like Daniel Hauser, eleven-year-old Madeline Neumann became gravely ill, and like Daniel, her parents refused to seek appropriate medical care. Unlike...
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This is the sort of story that makes me glad that I had my babies at home with midwives. Even then, though, there was always the fear that something...
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For the last week I've been mulling over the story of Daniel Hauser, the thirteen-year-old boy who made news when his mother fled the state with him...
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No guides for thrift today, alas. Taking up a night job which involves an hour-long commute tends to suck the creativity right out of a person. But I...
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When I was in high school, they used to periodically put the school in lock down -- we had to stay in our seats with our bags tucked under our feet,...
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