Letter to an advice column, rewritten

Dear Robin, Our only child is getting married soon. My husband and I love his fiancĂ© and are fully supportive of this arrangement– last year, my husband and I committed to paying for the wedding. Here’s the problem: Turns out that both my son and his fiancĂ© have different beliefs […]

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The latest indignity

Dignity is a sort of agreement between people. A decision to grant that a person, or body of people, deserve respect. That they possess agency, the capacity and the right to make their own decisions. To determine their own lives. America has agreed, implicitly, that poor people have no dignity. […]

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