Going Back to the Abuser
I’ve seen it happen and it always breaks my heart. A woman falls in love with a man. After a period of time, he begins to abuse her. Perhaps it doesn’t happen until after marriage. Perhaps it happens before. He […]
Oh Captain! My Captain!
This article shares its title with an elegy penned by the American poet, Walt Whitman following the murder of president Abraham Lincoln in 1865. In the poem, Whitman celebrates the end of the Civil War while lamenting the loss of our 16th president. Each of the poem’s three stanzas ends by speaking of “Captain” Lincoln...Continue reading