by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Washington, D.C., writer Carla Seaquist wrote this essay after an evening spent in an emergency room waiting to be treated. So I say to the man seated next to me in the emergency room, “This isn’t so much Bedlam as ‘Bad-limb.’” By some strange symmetry, appropriate...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
My husband, commanding officer of a U.S. warship, has returned from operations in the “tanker war” in the Persian Gulf. His purpose there was defense and deterrence. While he was away, I too became involved in defense and deterrence here on the home front: I found...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Washington, D.C. If you wish to become an optimist and understand life, stop believing what people say and write, observe and discover for yourself. — Chekhov Howard Beach, Central Park, Bensonhurst: These tragic events are fact, they are indisputable. I believe. But...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Washington, D.C. How dismaying to see Pete Wilson recant. When he was Mayor of San Diego in the 1970’s and early 80’s, he developed a nationally acclaimed affirmative action program. “It must come from the heart,” he once told the City Council, “but we must have goals...
