To say I was surprised by the response to my November 2011 essay "How Cable TV Made Me Lose My Religion and My Mother" would be an understatement. In this post I recounted how my mother had been negatively influenced by conservative media forces and how our relationship...

My mother passed away five months ago at the age of 80. Despite her advancing age and the knowledge that this day must eventually come, I always knew it would be one of the most difficult moments of my life, and it was. In fact, the pain of losing her...