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I have been meditating daily for about 20 years, which means I must have started when our children were about 3 and 5. Various tricks have worked for me throughout the years. This past week, keeping my meditation practice up while caring … [Continue reading] about My Top Tips to Create & Maintain a Meditation Practice with a Family
After ugly crying at the results of the Biden coup last night, it was a tonic to breeze by a row of lawn signs on this perfect Sacramento spring day--all of which trumpeted candidates & issues that I voted for which seem to have prevailed in the … [Continue reading] about Sacramento’s Katie Valenzuela Shows the Continued Power of Bernie’s Movement
Yesterday, as I was walking a six year old girl to pick up her three year old brother from daycare, she said, “I have a trivia question for you, Sara. What do all animals avoid above all else?” After I wrongly guessed taxes and Fox News, … [Continue reading] about A Six Year Old Knows Why Bernie Sanders is Necessary
It’s been on our bookshelf since 2003 when Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran was top of the best-seller lists. In that time, in the wake of 911, notwithstanding my distress over the George W. Bush administration, it might have meant … [Continue reading] about Reading *Reading Lolita in Tehran* in US 2020
With the mainstream media continuing to pursue (with the encouragement of some Democratic party insiders) its “anyone but Bernie” strategy, my impulse was to demand that Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar need to drop out and endorse Bernie. Then … [Continue reading] about VOTERS stand with Bernie at the “Moral Center” of the Democratic Party
Having spent a lot of my life with the belief that public transit is inconvenient and messy, or a great sacrifice over car travel, I wonder sometimes if people understand what a net affirmative joy it is to get around by bus, train or foot.I grew up … [Continue reading] about Do you actually know the thrill of using public transit?
FDR's Labor Secretary Frances Perkins Meets with striking workersBernie Sanders is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. I’ve made no secret of my support for him or my belief that he is by far the best candidate to beat the incumbent … [Continue reading] about A Progressive President Can Make a Huge Difference, With or Without Congress
On Sunday, February 16thwe saw the play Gloria by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Five days later we saw Alabaster by Audrey Cefaly at Capital Stage in Sacramento. Alabaster was better, both … [Continue reading] about Sacramento is so Lucky to Have Cap Stage
Even though I’m super high on Bernie, I was wondering for a while how presidentialhe seems and what it will be like to have him as president. Prior to Trump most Americans saw little connection between who is president and their day to day … [Continue reading] about President Bernie Sanders will be presidential
Photo by SJ ChildsThis past Saturday marked the first time in decades that the Sacramento Bee did not publish a print edition. We were warned of it for months but still it felt sad not to open the door, look for the paper and have to call up to … [Continue reading] about The Long Slow Death of the Sacramento Bee (and local newspapers generally)
I live in downtown Sacramento. Here’s how I voted today on the whole ballotI’ll start with ballot initiatives and move “up” to city races (Katie Valenzuela for City Council over Steven Hansen), Democratic Central Committee members and then … [Continue reading] about How I voted in downtown Sacramento, CA today
--> My darlings,Do you fear losing your healthcare coverage? Let’s talk about Medicare for All, Universal Public College and day care, anything that you’re fearing right now (especially from a Bernie Sanders … [Continue reading] about Let’s talk about Medicare for All in Office Hours this week