Dear President Trump, Today is our daughter's 18th birthday, her Golden Birthday since she is turning 18 on the 18th. The day has been full on and I'm exhausted and ready for bed so this will be short. I do, though, want to tell you a few things I learned from her today while we … Continue reading Your absolute right to move safely through the world
Misogyny
Dumb and primitive
Dear President Trump, Isn't it interesting how primitive we are when it comes to how we respond when one of our own vs. an enemy is found to have messed up? Granted, some of us are more primitive than others of us when it comes to these situations, but really, I think we all initially … Continue reading Dumb and primitive
Call us by our right names
(sent 11/14/17 due to power outage on the 13th) Dear President Trump, A couple of weeks ago our pastor's sermon focused on a young woman who came into her office off the street. She described how the woman was angry and prickly, how she seemed to want something she couldn't articulate. Our pastor asked her … Continue reading Call us by our right names
Words matter
Dear President Trump, Maggie Smith (still my new favorite poet) has a generous blog where she's posted dozens of her poems. Usually I can't anticipate what a poem is about from reading the title, but there is one in the list that I knew I knew from the title exactly what is was going to … Continue reading Words matter
They berate themselves for not seeing the signs
Dear President Trump, Ironically, I'm not working today because it’s Veterans' Day (observed). I've been thinking, though, of how the opportunities and motives for men to abuse and sexually harass women I've laid out recently overlap with what my women patients at the VA have told me over the years. Those who enlisted in the … Continue reading They berate themselves for not seeing the signs
We need to be safe to do our thing
Dear President Trump, I've told you before how I run early in the morning, but what I haven't shared is how careful I am to cross the street if I see a man up ahead, to stay within certain geographic bounds so as to avoid going anywhere near the frat houses down by the U, … Continue reading We need to be safe to do our thing
A dangerous, dangerous dynamic
Dear President Trump, Apparently we are just two or three weeks away from Mueller having you and Mr. Pence in for questioning. If you don't fire him between now and then, that is. I've tried to imagine what that scenario would be like, you firing him, I mean, and it gives me such bad willies … Continue reading A dangerous, dangerous dynamic
The wonderful, radical Peruvian beauty pageant
Dear President Trump, I missed an incredibly fantastic angle when I wrote you yesterday about the radical Peruvian beauty pageant contestants. It must have galled you as a former beauty pageant owner and unabashed misogynist that they used this venue where women are traditionally treated as so much eye candy for men and turned it … Continue reading The wonderful, radical Peruvian beauty pageant
Vital statistics
Dear President Trump, So, so much going on, it is incredibly hard to know where to shine the light. I think I'll start with a sweet thing. Two weeks ago my daughter lost her wallet when she was in Boston and today she got a little package in the mail from someone in Boston with … Continue reading Vital statistics
We have to be relentless
Dear President Trump, I'm betting you are thanking your sick lucky stars for Sayfullo Saipov and his horrible, murderous attack yesterday in NYC since all the coverage of the Mueller indictments slipped below the fold. Don’t get too comfortable though -- Mueller is clearly just getting started. Did you see in the paper today that … Continue reading We have to be relentless
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