Decision to Adopt

When my husband and I married, we kept going back and forth about whether or not we wanted biological children. Every year, we’d say, “Well, maybe next year,” until we realized that something about having biological children together felt wrong (for...

WORLD HOUSE Challenge: Empatharian Movement

This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a big house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterners and Westerners, Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family unduly separated in...

Dangers of Oil Drilling in Kern County

Kern River pumpjacks, California (Photo CC by Sarah Craigh/Faces of Fracking on Flickr) On February 11th, the Kern County (California) Planning Commission held a hearing on a proposed ordinance to allow permitting of more than 67,000 new oil and gas wells over the...

What’s In Your Bathroom Cabinet?

My grandmother Myma’s last instruction as I was leaving for Roy Stephenson’s tenth birthday party was “Don’t look in the Stephenson’s medicine chest if you have to use the bathroom.”  “Okay Grandma, I won’t.” But I did.  Lots of rubber stuff I didn’t...