Why I’m up in arms about the overturned ban on guns

Many of you got a glimpse of the entry I posted a last week, called “Anger, Relief” — which I promptly deleted.
It described what happened last week, when a man with a gun slipped inside the home of one of my best friends, a single mom, and tried to rape her.
I wrote that post from [...]

When violence hits close to home

When violence hits this close, it’s like I have no meat on my bones. I don’t like feeling this vulnerable.
Today at BabyCenter.com, I write about the 10-year-old boy who was shot near our home last night.

He was hit by a stray bullet during his piano lesson, when a robber opened fired at a gas station [...]