DNC: I’m serious
The speeches of the Democratic Convention are washing over the country as clean and fresh as untainted hope, as full of promise and excitement as Christmas eve, as energetic as the last and greatest spurt of anticipation towards a life-saving goal. Yes, Barak Obama!...
The Sadness of Post-Arthur Andersen
I’m still realizing that I chose my current job according to a single criterion which was not a good idea. I reacted so emotionally to the corruption and collapse of my former employer, Arthur Andersen, that my job search really only had one focus: a business that had...
Lessons of a Reluctant Corporate Mofo
Remember Arthur Andersen? After 89 years as the gold standard of accounting, in the spring of 2002 it became the poster company for corporate America gone wrong and within months had been stripped of its clients and completely dissolved. No, this is not a business...
Birthday
Today is my birthday. I am 38 years...old. I am the same age as Carrie Bradshaw when Sex and the City ended. A year older than Mary Richards when The Mary Tyler Moore Show went off the air. The same age as my mother when she had been married for 12 years and had two...
Chicana Demographic
I finally appreciate the education my parents and grandparents made available to me.
Longing
Longing, Part I I want to learn happiness the way others do it with lazy lunches occasional silence and coats thrown together on a kitchen chair. To stay in someone’s life, my name coffee-stained in their address book and permanently on the Christmas card list. To let...
What I Would Say at the Democratic National Convention
As the daughter of community activists, I have spent my life being suspect of American culture, media and politics. As a product of the Reagan '80's, I learned that our government is not to be trusted and the worst things I suspect of our leaders are probably true. As...
Nader?
I am now considering how qualified and experienced Nader is for the presidency and he doesn't look good. Then again, neither Kerry nor Edwards has experience leading, either. I'm also considering how effective Nader would be as president. I...
I WANT to be a centrist, but…
I want to be a centrist: reasonable, willing to see both sides, comfortable with progress through compromise. Arguably the only progress that’s ever made in our political system is the progress that happens when both Republicans and Democrats work together, put aside...
John Kerry – Pro and Con
Okay, so there’s this debate going on among leftists and further-to-the-leftists: why elect John Kerry when he’s so centrist it will barely make a difference? The argument is that John Kerry’s record shows that he isn’t nearly as far to the left as he would need to be...
Dick
In the July 19 issue of Newsweek, the “Conventional Wisdom” section makes this statement about Vice President Dick Cheney, “Campaigns like Scrooge on tour.” I showed it to the stranger sitting next to me on the train and made a friend, for a moment.
The Myth of Marriage
Thanks to those of you who responded to yesterday’s posting, either by commenting here or sending me an email. I appreciate all of your input. I guess I'm just expressing the frustration of having no control over random chance (not an original expression). A college...