differences
November 14, 2009
- Whenever someone starts a sentence with “Men are…” or “Women always…”, I cringe. Sweeping generalizations about the sexes are silly at this point. We’re all bleeding into one another, changing, morphing. Plus, these stereotypes tend to be sexist in one way or the other.So I’m here to smash a few of them with my little ...
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October 10, 2009
- Every spring, Chris and I order butterfly caterpillars. We have an inexpensive, one gallon aquarium, where we keep them safe and snug, while they munch themselves to ten times their size, finally go into chrysalis, and then - the butterfly.Usually, everything goes very well. We watch them with awe...eagerly awaiting the beautiful painted lady butterfly that we know will emerge. They hatch...they ...
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September 17, 2009
- The fear and furor largely created by misinformation and political ill will in the debate about U.S. health care reform has taken such uncivil forms, it is refreshing to learn that the Ontario government in Canada (you know, the place with that blankety-blank public health care system)is considering 21st century legislation regarding infertility. With so many women working and having babies ...
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August 13, 2009
- Once there was a boy.There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about him when he was born, but his parents, like most parents, believed him to be the most perfect baby.He was a rough-and-tumble child, as boys tend to be — active and talkative and social. Somewhere along the way, he developed little quirks — the “right” person had to take him out of the car seat, his shoelaces had to be ...
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June 5, 2009
- I was misty-eyed at President Barack Obama's courageous attempt to create an atmosphere where peace can begin, to get the Muslim world at large to understand that we can have different views -- both commonalities and differences -- and still get along. It seems so simple yet it appears to be so difficult to put into practice.While I appreciated his understanding of the centuries of persecution ...
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June 26, 2008
- Please go visit my new blog: http://sandracarrington-smith.blogspot.com/2008/06/learning-from-goose-living-in-peace.html Thanks for your support!
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June 2, 2008
- --between writing fiction and poetry? folks ask me when they find out I've written a lot of poems for a novelist. Well, writing poetry transcends the personal, for me, whereas fiction relies on empathy. For both forms, I start with an image, a phrase, or an idea. Both forms distill language and meaning--in a poem every word counts, sound and syllable. In fiction, the sentences must advance ...
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