Don’t celebrate too hard

By leslieboyd / March 25, 2017

It looks like Trumpcare is dead in the water. It’s fine to take a little time to breathe a […]

‘Was he working?’

By leslieboyd / March 22, 2017

Nine years ago yesterday, Mike told me to tell his story. It wasn’t in so many words, of course. […]

By leslieboyd / March 20, 2017

I was visiting my family in South Georgia a couple weeks ago, playing with my brilliant and beautiful great-granddaughter, Reaghan, […]

By leslieboyd / March 18, 2017

Nine years ago today, I brought my son home to die. In my heart, I feel as though it could […]

By leslieboyd / March 17, 2017

If the powers that be in the Republican Party want people to die, then they got it right with this […]

By leslieboyd / February 28, 2017

The Jewish Community Center here in Asheville, NC, received a bomb threat yesterday. That, in itself, is scary enough, but […]

By leslieboyd / February 26, 2017

I was ready to make a very public exit from the Democratic party if Tom Perez won the chairmanship, but […]

By leslieboyd / February 19, 2017

Dear Sen. Burr, Sen. Tillis and Rep. Meadows: You know me. You know me because for the last nine years […]

By leslieboyd / February 16, 2017

In a sea of pink, I’m the one in the purple pussy hat. I was going to wear pink — […]

By leslieboyd / February 1, 2017

Last week I wrote about the flooding of our communities with opiates, and later that day, I learned a friend […]