The National Anthem, Colin Kaepernick, and real respect.

Last Sunday, the husband said, “This is the last Sunday I’ll be uninterested in what’s on tv.” Because football. And because being obsessed with politics doesn’t take up nearly enough of his time. My eyes began rolling in big…

Why #BlackLivesMatter to this Southern white woman

This is hard.

I’ve told you before that growing up in the 1970s, I attended an all-girls private Catholic school in uptown New Orleans. There were 52 girls in our class; three of them were black. No one was outwardly…

Trump’s accusers: Um….I know how they feel…..

As I’m writing this, nine women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or sexual harassment — or sexual aggression, you might call it.

It’s difficult to believe, right? Because why are they just coming forward now, less…

A high school fails its own civics lesson, and free speech takes a hit.

Not what I ordered! WARNING: FERTILITY RANT AHEAD

The hazards of sperm banks, and the made-to-order child

About a decade ago, a Canadian woman named Angela Collins and her same-sex partner decided to start a family. So they purchased some sperm from Xytex, a Georgia…

OUR 2014 VACATION ODYSSEY: Roughing it, mostly.

At the beginning of the summer I told Hot Firefighter Husband that I wanted to learn to camp. He was all, “No.” Serious. “C’mon,” I said. “I want our kids to be more outdoorsy. We need to get away from electronics and civilization.” He poured…

The PLAYERS Championship in the ‘hood, drunks, and citizen responsibility

Alcohol, Golf, and Being a Good Samaritan

Welcome to the week of The PLAYERS Championship, the internationally renowned golf tournament that takes place in my backyard and so…

Dear Dad: Let me tell you about today (at Notre Dame)

It soaked into me as I walked across the Notre Dame campus yesterday, the grief. My footsteps fell where they had fallen more than 30 years ago, and where yours had fallen 20 years before that. I looked up at Father Sorin’s gray marble…

Courage in unlikely places, or the boy surprises me.