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I never heard of him until this week, and now he’s dead. Troy Davis, a man of color, convicted of shooting an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard on a long-ago dark night in Georgia, was put to death by lethal injection on a gurney with a bunch of people watching. Who are we as a people? Troy was no saint, although in recent pictures he looks like a studious man from law school—calm, clear-eyed, and full of strength. He ...read more I wrote this piece ten years ago, in the weeks following 9/11. Nothing has changed for me. I have been a committed atheist for forty-eight years, never wavering in my firm belief that God makes a wonderful crutch, a way to avoid responsibility for our part in life’s suffering. At first, when the towers fell along with everyone in them, my anger and pain sang of a Godless heap where the southern tip of Manhattan meets the river. Over the next ...read more After all these months, the only thing they can agree on is that they can’t agree, so let’s apply for more credit cards to pay the increasing debt? Such a deal. There is nothing to celebrate. I don’t get it. And frankly, you Washington idiots should have kept me out of the discussion because we all know that ignorance is bliss. When you all screwed up in the past, you were smart enough to keep us, the unsuspecting, uneducated, naive public, ...read more Three people in the last week have asked me why I blog, so I thought I’d answer that question here. I am finding as I go through my day-to-day travels that more and more people are asking me about the blog and about blogging in general. I’m not sure why, but I get the feeling that those around me seem to have something to say, and they are trying to decide where to say it. A few years ago, I read ...read more I really want to think of myself as an organized person. I work hard at it. I took the Franklin Covey three-day course in using their planner, which frankly was a very long time to sit and learn how to fill in your calendar. I buy calendars and agendas yearly, and notebooks usually once a month. I buy them and start all over. Then I throw out the paper organizers and notebooks and move to Outlook. Then I move to ...read more I don’t wish to sound bitter, especially on such a lovely summer day, but I’m getting more and more irritated by e-mail issues and I wanted to address some of these issues here. I’m sure you will now adjust your opinion of me and realize that, far from being the fab woman you thought I was, polite and filled with gratitude for the world at large, I am in truth constantly irritated by breaches of e-mail etiquette that seem to ...read more I love movies, and I love blogging. In the few years I’ve been writing Freesia Lane, I’ve reviewed many movies and TV shows. When HBO and other distributors started to send me movies and invited me to blog about them, I thought, Wow, I’m a reviewer. Ok, not so much, but I do love movies, and I really do love thinking during and after about what made a movie work or not work from my very limited female dreamer’s point of ...read more I am on the Cape for a good part of the summer, visiting with my mom and family and reconnecting with the summers of childhood that are imprinted so vividly on my memory. My mother’s family is from the Cape. They are Hinckleys (I guess I should say I’m a Hinckley too), and you all may remember from your history books that Thomas Hinckley was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Yes, that Plymouth Colony. When I mention this, ...read more Today is Oprah’s last show, and I hope you will all watch it, because Oprah is my friend. Oprah went global two months after my fabulous daughter was born. I’m not sure when I started watching, but I’m pretty sure it was close to the beginning. At that time there was no such thing as TIVO, so I didn’t tape it. Let’s say I watched five times a month. I don’t remember any of those shows, but I do remember she ...read more |
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