Posted Fri, Mar 4, 4:48 p.m.

As someone who has seen the performance in Seattle, I can say that "raspy, off-key hooting" is exactly what Alice Ripley delivered here. And despite petulalou's complaint, I don't think it's the least bit mean or snarky to say so. Yes, Ripley's acting is excellent, yes, she's put a lot ...

Posted Sat, Dec 26, 1 p.m.

I tend to think of sin as having to do with a relation to God, shame as what you develop a sense of from a parent who makes you feel your every move is wrong, that you're not worth the $.67 worth of chemistry you're made of. Guilt I think ...

Posted Mon, Dec 14, 9:52 a.m.

A fine and important piece, Ann. I admire your integrity. We do need to find a way to cut through our current mess, to ask what matters most for students. Do we want to end teacher flight from poorer schools? Let's raise their pay. Do we want to get parents ...

Posted Thu, Dec 3, 7:02 p.m.

Sad that it takes law suits to get us to do what we know is best -- in mental health, in education, in children's health care generally. Despite what we say oh-so-sentimentally, we are a society indifferent to children, except perhaps our own.

Posted Sun, Jun 21, 12:16 p.m.

Seneca seems not to know that he's responding to a very brief article by Anthony Robinson and not a treatise by Marilyn Robinson. She never uses the word "dissents," which Senecas makes so much of, he (Anthony)does. She doesn't offer her unsupported statements or preferences, he does. She never says ...