Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.