a progressive perspective on law, politics, philosophy…and occasionally life
We are about two months into our move to Santa Fe, New Mexico. I want a record of how this part of my life unfolds, so I’m keeping a journal. I have decided to experiment with putting the occasional entry into Notes from Calico Manor. Both keeping this journal and using Notes from Calico Manor … Read more
Today, I was reading about how the covid-19 pandemic has burned out and traumatized hospital nurses. I caught myself unexpectedly nodding along in recognition, though I’m not a nurse. I’m a professor. Nurses have faced more dramatic, more dire conditions than I have. Yet the demands from their employers and their patients were startling familiar. … Read more
I hate the term “self-care.” It is always sounds too woo-woo to me. It carries connotations of superficiality, summoning up the image of people relying on scented candles to handle oppression, injustice, subordination. Because the phrase has been hijacked by “influencers” and by marketers, it can seem that self-care is not-politics, that it requires inattention … Read more