Category: politics

  • The Color of Cancer: Time for a Change

    The Color of Cancer: Time for a Change

    Black lifespans in NYC are 7 years shorter than white are, and many are cut short by cancer. Policy could change that.

  • Vote to Express Yourself

    I vote to express myself. I vote to hope for a great future. I vote because I can. What about you? A favorite inspiring author, poet Alice Walker reads her own poem about voting to Amy Goodman in this video: In my own family, my parents always voted – not always for the same candidates – and…

  • Natural Supernatural Love Poems

    Have you carried unfinished things around with you from place to place, and hoped to make something new out of them? This spring, looking at the two shelves of handwritten, typed, bound, loose and even tattered poems and drawings that I’ve carried from childhood through a dozen moves, I had to do something about it. And…

  • Health Reform: An Open Letter to HHS

    Dear HHS, I am writing to ask you to include medical foods for the treatment of phenylketonuria, PKU, and similar inborn errors of metabolism as an essential health benefit under the chronic disease management category. Has Genetics, a relatively new field of science, ever improved the public health? I will argue that is has, and that…

  • The Myth of Ownership

    I’ve been struggling with the concept of ownership for a long time, and suspect it may be just a myth. Many people here tragically lost homes, investments, jobs, retirement funds in the economic downturn. It seems like we have gone through that moment when the illusion of ever increasing wealth is faced with a harsh reality, and…