Movies - Oct. 29, 2004
Leigh's latest film "Vera Drake" hits hard
It would be easy to mistake the two-hour picture for a tender period piece about the tight-knit working class Drake family headed by its warm-hearted mother, but keen viewers will feel the undertow in the darkness of the early scenes.
Tags: Leigh, Vera Drake, abortion, England

Kids & Family - Sept. 20, 2008
My Life as a Canvasser for Planned Parenthood
It's been swell. Lots of excercise, plenty of water, and hopefully, if I am lucky, a night without a madperson screaming at me.What don't people 'get'?Planned Parenthood is almost singlehandedly eliminating or reducing abortions in disproprtional amounts, compared to any singular 'right to lifer'...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Right to Life, Economy, Milwaukee, Barbara Meyer-Spidell