This past week I attended a writer’s event and was supported by my mother, my sister, three aunts, and three female cousins. Meanwhile, we are going through a surreal political season in which one candidate is a serial womanizer and convicted sexual abuser who has taken away a woman’s right…

I learned a new word today. But first, about my big brother Harper, for those of you who don’t already know. For the past couple of decades, he has been the leader of a very cool thing on the campus of the University of Oregon called the Urban Farm. As…