Trump, ‘Alternative Facts,’ and Abuse

If you’ve worked with abuse survivors, this won’t be new.

Welcome to the Dictator Playbook

We’ve seen this before. Immigrants are always the first target.

How To Leave An Unhappy Relationship

With a little help from a daily planner.

Stay.

Stay.

Threaten to leave.

Stay.

Lessons

A life in two or more worlds

Lesson 1 — LemonBasket

To Obama, From Ukraine (With Love)

Joy and homesickness in the Peace Corps

Come On, Rise Up

Dear Members (and New Friends):

Lac Des Roches, 1977

I’m tucked between grandparents 
on a vinyl expanse of bench seat
as their Ford Country Squire station wagon — 
baby blue with faux wood panels — 
cruises north from Seattle.
We stop for gas and I wheedle them
to buy me Junior Mints 
and Archie comics off a spinning wire rack.
Somewhere over…

Things Are Going Great

Fantasies of a visible life.

I stayed home from school for two reasons: to avoid classes and to watch Ellen. Sometimes, I’d actually be sick, but the ratio of feigned illness to legitimate physical despair swung very much towards the former…

dreams i’ve had since donald trump was elected president of the united states