Call me crazy, call me naïve.  But why not hope that bad news could trigger a good result?   A staggering 42,000,000 Americans struggle to put food on the table every day. So in more civil days, we rallied with a safety net.  SNAP and other support programs were put in place during times when care for our suffering neighbors seemed normal.  But these merciful provisions—and even their emergency backups—are being sabotaged by ruthless members of an administration hostile to c

I have been dumbfounded since Trump’s re-election.  (Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “lacking the power of human speech”)  For an erstwhile writer, this is profoundly dismaying.  But I have literally been unable to conjure any words or images that could grasp and express how I experience this unprecedented calamity that has befallen us all.  And with each additional stupefying blow to all that we hold holy, my incapacity to speak about how I feel only deepened. Until yesterday.