Another Voice

Shoot

The old saying is “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people”; let’s amend that just a bit: “Guns don’t kill people; people with guns kill people” in record numbers. Isn’t that enough to change the laws in the United States?

Blame

Today is the three-year anniversary of my having taken my son to the emergency room because of sporadically-strange behavior.  Within hours, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, assumed to be malignant; he was admitted for further tests which confirmed a glioma blastoma.  Thirty-one days later, he was dead. I blame myself: why hadn’t I […]

They Know Better

The news is full of the recent withdrawal of John Ratcliffe’s nomination for head of the National Security Administration – thank goodness!  So, another nominee of Trump bites the dust.  It’s getting very dusty in here, hmmph. What no one seems to be focusing on is what, to me, is becoming a clearer image of […]

Dissent

Those who cry “Love it or leave it!” don’t seem to realize that to love the U.S. is to want to see it grow and improve, and that is only accomplished by change.  So, when we criticize, we try to do so constructively, not destructively, and with the hope that we can make our country […]

Go Back

[About four Democratic Congresswomen who are minorities]“….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” –Donald J. Trump, 14 July 2019 […]

Apology

Our Shame

This was written the day before a photo of a drowned father and 2-year-old daughter was published; they had applied for legal immigration and were denied.  Apparently desperate, the father and his family tried to cross illegally. The history of America – my homeland – is not all celebration and fireworks.  Perhaps all nations share […]

On Grief

I have come to understand a good deal about grief and loss, surely more than I ever wanted to.

Paying Forward

In 1988, when my father was 85 and sick, he was told that he would have to go to a nursing home for full-time care.  Instead, he asked to “go home” to the Philippines.  He had left there in 1922, come to America to study agriculture with the intention of returning home to take over […]