Gabrielle Giffords | Gabrielle Giffords
Mar.26.2012
A blogpost I wrote after the Tucson shootings.
“We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and...
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Nov.17.2011
As I watched the story about the congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords on 20/20 the other night, I smiled. If you have a chance to look at it, I recommend it highly. http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VD55153303/gabby-giffords–mark-kelly-courage-and-hope
There were quite a few aha moments to be had...
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Nov.16.2011
I think the greatest love story of all time is the one that is unfolding between Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Astronaut Mark Kelly. Married just four years this couple has had to endure Gabby’s slow and hard recovery from a bullet shot through her brain. Early on we didn’t see photos of...
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Jan.13.2011
(full story: http://wp.me/p1aE2o-x4) Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate young Congresswoman genuinely beloved on both sides of the aisle, lies gravely wounded in an Arizona hospital, her survival a miracle of providence, heroism and modern medicine; six innocent people must be laid to rest, including a...
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Jan.12.2011
2011 started with a storm and has been stormy ever since. The second day of the year I woke up with a sore throat. I thought oh damn. I knew what was coming. I knew I was getting sick.
Sure enough I did. I was coughing, sniffing, a miserable mess. And it made me so crabby. It made me want to...
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Jan.11.2011
The word of the week is blame. Who should be blamed for Jared Lee Loughner, the loony white male devotee of the Sovereign Citizen Movement who shot nineteen people outside a Tucson supermarket on Saturday, killing six and wounding fourteen, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords? What happens...
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