by Aya de Leon | Aug 3, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
As a mom, I always have a backup plan. An additional snack in my purse. A spare kid’s bike helmet in my car. An extra hair elastic around my wrist. If Moms ran the world, I believe things would be going much better. I have never been a huge fan of the nation’s...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jul 30, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to feel. I remember a therapist saying, Where in your body do you feel that? And I remember thinking, feel? Body? Where? What was he talking about? I remember going to a workshop in my yoga teacher’s apartment in New York and the...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 27, 2020 | Opinion
This past week, I was driving up an unfamiliar street on the way back from a hiking trail in Oakland. I was surprised to see the following graffiti on the garage, and found out that it was the Mayor’s house. What surprised me most was the discord between the Black...
by Angie Powers | Jul 21, 2020 | Opinion
I recently watched a class on gardening. I have a tendency to inadvertently kill plants. Negligence and over compensation. And the class looked accessible. Not something that was going to overwhelm me with complex nutrient-to-dirt ratios or make me feel like a failure...
by Elizabeth Stark | Jul 14, 2020 | Action, Opinion
I’ve been watching the Coronavirus pattern. Scientists and health experts say, if we do X and don’t do Y things are going to get worse, cases will spike, hospitals will get overwhelmed. And then we do X anyway and don’t do Y, and lo and behold, things get worse, cases...
by Aya de Leon | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Earlier this year, I saw that a local organization had an all-white climate panel. I had some connections to that organization, so I got the organizer’s info and sent her an email. You will not be surprised to learn that she is a white woman. Here’s what I...
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