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A couple of weeks ago the Los Angeles Times ran a story entitled “Guardians for Profit” that made my 82-year-old father shiver in fear. When I read it, I was at first horrified, and then, furious. This series of articles,...

I usually write about children and family matters, and though this piece feels a little political, it really comes down to the fact that children and family matter. The Israelis recently accomplished a monumental, life-altering feat by pulling their civilians,...

I’ve been thinking a lot these days about Ms. Cindy Sheehan, her crusade, and our President’s reaction to it. As the mother of four — one of them a seventeen-year-old son — I am drawn intuitively to her grief. I...

In honor of our country’s independence, I’m gearing up for an all-day eat-a-thon with family and friends, topped off with a firework display that will elicit the usual squeals, oohs and ahhs from the kids. While we stare at the...

There was a time when the leading edge - the youthful brain trust — was searching for and sometimes finding the complete picture; the holistic view. I was a hippie in the be-here-now 60s, though admittedly, one with concessions. I...

I recently witnessed something incredibly profound — the birth of a child. Okay, I know — women have been having babies…well, since “Hector was a pup,” as my dad would say. I myself have had four of them. What made...

There’s a lot of yammering on both sides of the political spectrum about how important kids are, how much we all care about them, how, after all, children are our future. So, why is it that we consistently fail them...