When University of California Santa Barbara student Elliot Rodger was 22 years old, he stabbed his two roommates and a friend to death and then drove to Starbucks for coffee. Sitting in his car in the parking lot, he recorded his motivations uploaded the ...
Silencing The Female Voice
The Cyber Abuse of Women On The Internet For a woman journalist in 2017, working on Twitter entails opening oneself to attacks such as: "I hope you get raped"Just Not Sports, 2016 "You need to be hit in the head with a hockey puck and killed ...
Urban Presence
The Visitation Sisters of North Minneapolis model gentleness and humility while living as a spiritual presence in a marginalized urban community. It looks like just another house on just another block in just another American neighborhood. Tidy hostas li ...
Art: Revealing the Us In The Other
It is not a passive thing to sit in the audience. It is also not a safe thing. We file in, avoiding eye contact and clutching tickets. We sort ourselves into aisles that are lettered and numbered in illogical fashion, we search for but can't spell mezzan ...
These 8 Portraits by Milwaukee Native Lois Bielefeld Capture a Sense of Place & Community
Photographer Lois Bielefeld's fascination with twilight defines her mesmerizing work. This article was published on Milwaukee Magazine.
Remembering Roger Ebert
First Published in U.S. Catholic, August 2017 He was perhaps the most beloved American film critic ever, but that is not what Roger Ebert thought he wanted to be. The way Ebert tells it, he imagined a career as a columnist, something along the line ...
Women’s Work
A cancelled series reveal the fight for women's pay equality is still underway. Once upon a time, in 1969, women weren't "allowed" to wear slacks at the office. This wasn't for modesty - miniskirts and tight dresses were fine, 9-5. The dress code was to ...
Who Runs The World?
In CBS drama Madam Secretary, patriarchy matters a little less. Madam Secretary (CBS, in its third season) breaks bold new ground in media portrayals of women leaders: Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord's friends, family, colleagues, and even the Presid ...
A Murderer’s Dress
Yes, I own one. Yes, I wore it. Yes, I wrote about it. This article was published in Milwaukee Mag, and is available here.
The Politics of Gilmore Girls
Life in Stars Hollow without (gasp!) a husband. This essay was published on U.S. Catholic.