Parenting Inside A Hero Narrative
A long time ago, children played role playing games while climbing on gravel piles wherein one might be Superman and another Wonder Woman. In the course of acting out this very physical drama, children worked their bodies while they worked out the moral…
Calm In Conflict: Are Women Truly Prepared For The Competitive Business World?
My daughter took her first martial arts lesson when she was four. She had no choice. I was the children’s instructor at our dojo. Both my daughter and my son spent their Saturday mornings hurling other children around a padded canvas mat, learning to…
This Is My Daughter, This Is Your Daughter: Egypt’s Blue-Bra Girl
I have daughters. I demand freedom. I will not be a slave nor will I stand idly by for a single moment while ignorant animals of power abuse the innocent. I am a warrior by nature. I have a voice and I have a fist. Many people want to know why an…
The Meaning Of Christmas To This Thankful Buddhist
Over two thousand years ago, a baby was born who was raised to care about his people. He lived at time when the machine of Roman conquest had reduced Israel to a feeder colony for the most highly organized global economy known to man until recently. As…
Don’t Make Our Children Fight For Our Freedom Alone
The holiday season here is nearing a close. Millions of American children are already ignoring the many gifts that they received for Christmas. Young people everywhere are texting each other making plans for New Year’s Eve. It has been a great year…
The Destruction Of Monet’s Water Lilies – The Harm Of Private Art Ownership
In 1915, any sense of romanticism regarding the Great War had disappeared from the minds of Europeans as the conflict that came to be known as World War I reached horrifying heights of cruelty and barbarism. Gas warfare was introduced to Poland in that…
A Brief History of Woman As Thing
We see it everywhere. There is the striking image of Adriana Lima, famous for modeling for Victoria’s Secret. Tens of thousands of girls desperate to be loved and admired would do anything to be her. Including starve themselves to death. Actually,…
The Myth of More
It is a thematic question frequently asked in literature and movies: “what would you do for one more day?” What would you do for one more day with a dead lover or dead child? It is evocative of our deepest attachments to impermanent things. And yet,…
Oh, Daughter Where Art Thou?
Tomorrow, my daughter leaves for Scotland to attend the University of St. Andrews. It seems like she was only home for a very short while having just returned from an internship in the United States Senate last semester. She is a junior at Smith…