Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

The word today is "detained," not "interred." People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.