Cello Lockwood
May 1, 2020
The Land on Fire
Before there was the pandemic, there were the bushfires. This morning it is sunny and warm. From my bed I can see a blue sky freckled...
Lynn Ungar
Apr 1, 2020
Pandemic (a poem)
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling....
Georgia S. McDade, Ph. D.
Apr 1, 2020
Reparations: What About the Cost?
Cost is always a major opposing point to reparations. I echo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asked about cost when millionaires and...
Georgia McDade, Ph.D.
Mar 1, 2020
Reparation Possibilities:
Last month, Georgia McDade explored the concept of reparations and this month, she lists some ways in which we might make reparations....
Georgia S. McDade, Ph. D.
Feb 1, 2020
Reparations
Reparations is not a word I use often. There were years when I neither heard nor said the word. Then in June 2014 Ta-Nahesi Coates wrote...
Georgia S. McDade
Jan 2, 2020
Where is the Diversity in Seattle Audiences?
September 24th, shortly before Seattle Arts and Lectures guest Malcolm Gladwell appeared on stage, a young black man whom I did not know...
Georgia McDade
Oct 1, 2019
Vote! Vote! Vote!
If you will be eighteen by November 5, 2019, you should be registered to vote, and you should vote. You should not hesitate to encourage...
Georgia S. McDade, Ph. D
Jun 1, 2019
Those Incidents that Scar
At a recent poetry reading along with two black women, one in her thirties, the other in her fifties, I mentioned the ordeal of getting a...
Charlie Phillips
Apr 1, 2019
Should We Switch to Year-Round Daylight Saving Time?
During our semi-annual switch on and off daylight saving time (DST), there are always flurries of articles that come out extolling the...
Susan Noyes Platt
May 1, 2018
SHARE/WHEEL: Helping Homeless People to Help Themselves
Candi Pickens declared “I love it,” when I asked how she liked living in the SHARE/WHEEL sponsored Tent City 3 encampment. “We are a...
Susan Noyes Platt
Apr 1, 2018
Radical Women
In honor of Women’s History Month, I am celebrating Radical Women, a socialist feminist group based in Columbia City, but with branches...
Kiku Hayashi
Mar 1, 2018
Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation
A special League of Women Voters year-end program was given by University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom on...