Los Angeles Times Article published 12/19/2022:
Op-Ed: Harvey Weinstein’s latest trial and the ritual of degrading women in court
By Katy Butler
Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial, which ended Monday with the jury finding him guilty of raping one woman, was more than a one-off parade of salacious stories about a disgraced apex predator and a ritual dragging-through-the-mud of women who said they were violated. Its savage mistreatment of female witnesses is instructive to the approximately 300,000 American women who are raped each year and consider whether to involve the criminal justice system. Click here to continue reading.
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Wall Street Journal Article published 12/16/2020:
Covid Is Reshaping Death. And Maybe Life.
Our illusion of immortality is shattered. Let’s hope it changes us for the better.
By Katy Butler
The desire to die in the presence of those we love is so deeply ingrained that during the Civil War, soldiers dying on battlefields pulled out family photographs to create the experience in their imaginations. In 2020, the face-to-face family death vigil largely became an impossible luxury. While relatives wept on sidewalks, people with Covid died in isolation by the tens of thousands, attended only by masked nurses and aides holding iPads and dressed in hazmat suits. Click here to continue reading.
San Francisco Chronicle
How COVID pandemic is reshaping rituals of death and the way we mourn. 1/17/2021
Saying Goodbye
Oncology nurses Debra Rodgers, Debbie Roth, and Beth Calmes created this “bathing and honoring practice” to help families—and themselves—bring dignity and sacredness to a hospital death.
In Case of Dementia: My Wishes
A letter to Medical Advocates
San Francisco Chronicle
How to Prepare Yourself for a Good End-of-Life
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The Wall Street Journal
The Ultimate End-of-Life Plan.
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The New Yorker
Vibration, Devotion, Issan Dorsey, Valentine, Notes and Comment.
The New York Times
What Broke My Father’s Heart: How A Pacemaker Wrecked Our Family’s Life; The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking; Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of “Brokeback” Marriage; Beyond Rivalry, a Hidden World of Sibling Violence.
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Los Angeles Times
Did Daddy Really Do It?; The Accidental Feminist; A House Divided; Bite by Bite, the Croissant Culture is Swallowing up the Ghettos.
Mother Jones
Great Boomer Bust; Step by Step
MORE Magazine
How to Access Your Inner Calm; My Life as a House; The Good Daughter: Becoming the Family Caregiver
Pacific Sun
Sacred Junk; Why Liberals Lose: An Interview with George Lakoff; The Great Divide; Reclaim Democracy.
Tricycle
Everything is Holy; The Lotus and the Ballot Box; Eye on the Ball; Say it Right.
Psychotherapy Networker
Being There; The Art and Science of Love; Small Things Often; Alice in Neuroland; My Life as a House; Skinner’s Box or Pandora’s Box?…
Common Boundary
Poetry as Path; Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America
Whole Earth Review / Co Evolution Quarterly
Reporter’s Toolkit, Events are the Teacher
San Francisco: Don’t Call it Love
Sierra: Winning Words – George Lakoff Says Environmentalists Need to Watch Their Language
California: The Gilded Wilderness (New West Magazine)