Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

So what do we think, readers, about the Clintons’ characteristically cool and elegant refusal to appear before a Congressional committee that is politically motivated and probably obfuscatory to talk about their fleeting (or not) connections to Jeffrey Epstein? I hate thinking about Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Guiffre’s memoir was painful to read (and necessary to read,…

Today, let’s start with Thucydides. I’ll write about Alice Feeney and Lucy Foley and murderous marriages later. But first: please know that it’s very cold in Minnesota for a day of protests/walkouts: twenty or thirty degrees below zero. Bitterly cold. I was born in St. Paul’s, and when we moved to Northern California the following…

A Camosun College colleague was murdered; her former spouse is under arrest and will be in court tomorrow. Her seven-year-old and eleven-year-old daughters are bereft. Here’s the fundraising link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-laura-govers-daughter This statement is from our local MLAs, Diana Gibson and Grace Lord, who are terrific: “The death of Laura Gover is a devastating loss and…