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The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!

Local Color: Sexual Freedom, GSRD, Sexual Abuse

I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, for all my adult life, which by now totals many decades. I have always thought, proudly, of my home base as progressive

Patch Work: Parts, Intergenerational Transmission, Presence

Oxford was wonderful and it is good to be home. It is hard to beat that, except that I am pretty tired and “vertutzt” as we say, mixed up. As ever, when

Women of Valor: Sexuality, Neglect and Caregiving, Legacy

September 2nd was my mother’s birthday. She would have been 103. Of course I can’t help thinking of her on that day, with all my mixed feelings and memories. One of my

Black and White: A Stand, Number One, Dreams

Just the other day, I was talking to a friend about iconic hero figures, of which admittedly I have more than a few. I happened to mention Colin Kapernick. To me Colin

Alone and In the Dark: Isolation, Abandonment, Ferocity

Ever since the dawn of my activist days, now over 55 years ago (!) I always idealized Cuba. In those days I had no glimmer of awareness of trauma, neglect, or any

Colors of Pride: History Shame, Respair

Last week we went to see the museum exhibit of Monet in Venice. It was beautiful, all the soft muted colors of water lilies and more. I do love the gentle pastel

Fathers’ Day: Depression, Transition to Parenthood, Re-Experiencing

Although our mom started the reminders about her Mother’s Day wishes at least a month in advance of the day, Father’s Day was never much of a “thing” in our family. As

Staying the Course: History, Healing, Self Image

In 1996, The Vagina Monologues first appeared in San Francisco. It was an amazing work of theater, combining some of my most passionate interests: trauma, politics and art. It was a brilliant

George Floyd, Six Years Later – Remembering, Reliving, Forgetting, Forgiving

On May 25, it will be six years since the tragic murder of George Floyd. It seems like just a flash moment since I wrote my blog marking the one-year anniversary. “Pandemic

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