I wish I had more control over this. I wish I had more control over their bodily fluids. (Actually, I wish they had more control of their bodily fluids.) I wish I had more control over my reactions to the news that said bodily fluids have exited their bodies, an event […]
Author: Karen Johnson
Colin Kaepernick: Un-American or True American?
Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is the new John Carlos or Tommie Smith of 1968. Carlos and Smith raised a fist in support of the Black Power movement during the playing of our national anthem at the Olympic Games that year. Two athletes who benefited from the rights […]
Thank You, Media, for that Stunning Picture of Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton is no wall-flower. Agree with her or not, she gets what she wants because she works tirelessly for it. She is truly relentless. And as of last night, she’s almost there. In 2001, she became the first wife of a president to seek and win public office […]
Minecraft Is Educational (and Other Ways I Justify Excessive Screen Time)
Summer! Time to get out of the house and ride bikes and take nature walks and make bucket lists and catch worms and have lemonade stands. …Or watch a hell of a lot of TV and iPad. Do you fall into one of these two categories? What’s your “policy” on […]
Elie Wiesel, I Will Be a Witness
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” (Elie Wiesel, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize) I remember the first time I read Night—in high school. I was moved by Elie Wiesel’s words, but I was also distracted by high school naivety and the superficiality of my very safe, very stable […]
We Teach Our Kids to Fight
I want very much to raise kind, compassionate kids. My husband and I try to show generosity and philanthropy as an example for them. My son is a Cub Scout. We talk to our kids about what they should do if a shy kid at school is struggling to make friends—go up […]
#alllivesmatter—But Do They?
The older I get, the more I see what is painfully obvious: Our nation remains burdened by the plague of racism. And yet, while I find this fact to be indisputable, so many disagree. For every fellow American who nods along with me and laments our pathetic state of racial disparities, there seem […]
This Is What Transgender Looks Like
This is not a post about bathrooms. Or about laws being passed to regulate who uses which one. This is a post about humanity. Every human being walking down the street, visiting your local restaurants, working alongside you at your place of employment, passing you in a car, is just […]