About This Collection

Introduction: Art and Religion and Science and Reason
[A presentation delivered in 2010]

Part 1. Our Best Selves
[Essays from the HSNM Newsletter, 2011 - 2012]
New Year's Resolution
Just Say "Yes"
Am Honored to Inscribe
Dogs and Cats
Virtue and Honor
Believe It or Not
It's Time to Get Serious about the UDHR
Can't We Just Evolve Already?
Nature Is Inescapable
EHFAR
Save Us from the Soul-Savers
Changing Cottonwood against Cloudless Sky

Part 2. Let's Talk About Shoulders
[Essays from The Tree Blog, 2012 - 2013]
Repeat After Me: ERA
Let's Talk about Shoulders
Why "War on Women" Is a Misnomer
Lrch Frwrd
Mirror Mirror
We're All Babies Now
Breaking Down by Degrees, Holiday Mood Swings, and the Zombie Shopper Apocalypse
Gun Sex
Women Must Take the Lead in Ending Gun Violence
Bill Baird, My Hero and My Friend
Where Are the Voices for the ERA?
Wake Up to Your Media Landscape
Still Stewing about "Makers"
If I Could Convince You of Only One Thing, It Would Be This: Value Yourself

Part 3. A Kind of Hope
[Essays from the HSNM Newsletter, 2013 - 2014]
Let's Keep Going
Drawin' for Darwin
Reality Check
The Circle Way
Conflict of Interest
The Compassion Gap
A Kind of Hope
Come as You Are
Metaphors Work for Me
Renaissance 2.1
The Songs of Unseen Birds
Go Out and Be Awesome
Childhood
Prophets vs. Profits

Part 4. We All Deserve Better
[Essays from The Tree Blog, 2013 - 2016]
I Wouldn't Want to Be a Guy
Oh, *Now* We're Worried about the Fourth Amendment
Born to Worry
On Women's Equality Day, Let's Recommit to Passing the ERA
"Pro-Life" Porn Show Comes to Albuquerque
Breaking Wind
Men Also Deserve Better
I'm Sorry I Feel This Way: A Few Thoughts for the Days of Atonement
Most Cynical Ad Campaigns of 2015
If You Kill the Dog, I'm Closing the Book
Taking Another Look at Daniel Deronda
Women of America, This Is What Those Good Ol' Boys Think of Us

Conclusion: A Philosophy for Everyone

Appendix: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
[December 10, 1948, as provided by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights]