Privacy, Then and Now: Reflecting on Griswold

I was the mother of three in 1965, when it became legal for married couples in Connecticut to buy and Continue reading →

For the Duration

When one of my granddaughters asked if the Covid-19 experience was like anything I could remember, I said no. But Continue reading →

P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight”

Frightened and enraged by the crimes and abuses of the Trump administration and its enablers, I look back for hope Continue reading →

P.S. The Windrush Generation

I have posted more than once about Claudia Jones and her life and work in London with the “Windrush Generation.” Continue reading →

“I Question America”

I have written here before about the Greatest Generation, born between about 1909 and 1929 and celebrated for enduring the Continue reading →

P.S. Public (?) Education (?)

In April [2017] I posted here about Trump’s dismal choice of a Secretary of Education who neither knows nor cares Continue reading →

P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956)

In an earlier post and two essays I have written about my search-and-discovery experience of “Finding Claudia Jones,” the extraordinary Continue reading →

“School Choice”: DeVos v. Education

Much too often since the election of Donald Trump, I have felt a sickening sense of return to the 1950s. Continue reading →