Category Archives: politics

“We who believe in freedom…”

Posted on October 15, 2011 by sheilawill

What year was that American Booksellers Convention? Was it in D.C. when I was invited to an intimate concert with “Sweet Honey in the Rock?” My memory may be spotty but I can picture around 100 of us. I brought my … Continue reading →

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Fear-mongering among the 1 percent/Promoting innovation among the rest of us

Posted on October 11, 2011 by sheilawill

C’mon, New York Times columnist and Princeton University economist Paul Krugman isn’t some flaming radical; he’s one of the intelligentsia. But that’s part of the  fear-mongering that’s rampant: Mistrust those smart guys. What do they know? They’re not like us. Are the super-rich … Continue reading →

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Sunday in Tucson

Posted on September 20, 2011 by sheilawill

Every day in Tucson begins with sunshine. But when it’s 70 degrees at 8 a.m. that’s cause to celebrate. When the light makes everything look crisper, more shaded along the edges, clearer than the summer haze, well, that’s September. And … Continue reading →

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Desert rain

Posted on September 11, 2011 by sheilawill

So refreshing. Sixty-seven degrees last night with the windows wide open! Riding our bikes head on into puddle dips this morning. Wheeee who! I turned around and did it again. Like the 65-year-old kid that I am. “This is why … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Bill Keller, down with wimpiness

Posted on August 28, 2011 by sheilawill

He’s so right. “We need to ask candidates tougher questions about their faith,” Keller, the NYT executive editor writes in this week’s NYT mag. If a presidential candidate believes in the rapture, does that mean that s/he could never appoint an … Continue reading →

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America, America, wherefore art thou?

Posted on August 21, 2011 by sheilawill

Brook’s “Paradise Lust” is getting great reviews. Ethan arrives in Houston this weekend to start grad school at Rice. Dan and I are doing fine. But America? That’s another story. Without jumping on the disbelief bandwagon about our politics getting … Continue reading →

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Homeland run amok

Posted on July 30, 2011 by sheilawill

Since 9/11, we’ve been terrorized by fear. You see it in the monumental popularity of Fox News where almost every story is about something  (flip-flops) or someone (any Muslim) that is out to harm us. During this latest debt ceiling … Continue reading →

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Empty Wallets

Posted on July 26, 2011 by sheilawill

George Packer’s piece in the July 25 New Yorker humanizes the serious economic mess we’re in, not like the politicos in Congress ranting about cuts that disallow an unemployed father from providing medical treatment for his daughter with bone cancer. … Continue reading →

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Wait there’s more…

Posted on June 8, 2011 by sheilawill

How did I forget the merging of my two stories at the 2004 Democratic Convention in “Advising Obama — In a Dream,” yesterday’s post? When I heard that George McGovern was at the convention in Boston I scurried over to … Continue reading →

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Advising President Obama — in my dream

Posted on June 8, 2011 by sheilawill

President Obama confided in me this morning. I was asleep. “I don’t believe in Jesus,” he told me, “but I get a lot of flak for it.” Boy was I surprised, even if it was a dream. Why was he … Continue reading →

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