Bread and Roses

Rhode Island has low self-esteem, which means Rhode Islanders love articles about how great Rhode Island is and how cool Providence is...

I was born during an April blizzard.  This morning I woke up and the sounds from outside were muffled, and when I opened the curtai...

We signed LB up.  She is officially a 6%er having gotten into her new school by lottery. It's a small community charter dual language sc...

Way back over Christmas, my dad and I were discussing Trump and I said, or so I thought, hyperbolically: "in the coming racewar, I'...

A pw protected post up at the other blog: https://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/snarkfest-2016/

It's complicated, of course, with her not canonized.  But, then I'm not Catholic.  Dorothy Day: a difficult woman, a single mother, ...

"I hope I don't have a nightmare.  I had a nightmare that there was a gun and bullets.  I hid, so I didn't get dead.  All the k...