Martha's Thoughts

Hello and welcome to my blog! Because I’m not on social media, I’ve decided to post here when I’ve got something on my mind that’s more than a journal entry but less than an essay. Feel free to leave a comment.

Perspectives

Perspectives

I had two experiences last week that reminded me how subjective our perceptions of the world are. I was particularly struck by how much our surroundings while we were growing up affect our perspective as adults, even when the results seem benign. I spent a couple of...

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Second Women’s March

Second Women’s March

Yesterday was the anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, which I celebrated here in San Diego with tens of thousands of women and men at the second Women’s March. I hope it will become an annual event, at least for the next couple of years. For the first hour, we...

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