Category: Consider This

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist “I wear orange for 16 days in a row to stand in solidarity with other activists committed to ending violence against women,” I said, between mouthfuls of ceviche. I was in the...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Eyes closed, I’m enjoying Manhattan’s March sunshine on a building’s concrete stairs across from the United Nations Secretariat building. I feel a presence next to me. Around 42nd and...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Boo! Halloween has come once again, with its assortment of ghouls, goblins and witches. My question is: Why are witches considered scary Halloween characters? Wouldn’t the creepier...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist “I just read that the first baby born in North America was named Snorri. I wonder if we’re related?” my late sister Alane once said to me. I can picture her in her professional-level...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Can we move on, please? Over the years, I’ve written thousands of words about reproductive rights in this barely modern country of ours. Ireland and Mexico are now more progressive...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Murphy’s law — you’ve heard of it, yes? If not, here’s a refresher. Although no one is sure who Murphy was, her laws are well known. They are: • Nothing is as easy as it looks. •...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, I have been writing about it and the continuing backlash. Therefore, it’s impossible for me to stay silent about the recent Texas tyranny over...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Did you know there is an existing slave colony on Mars run by NASA and populated by kidnapped children? Every time I’ve gone to the Home Depot to pick up a few child slaves for toxic...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” The Wizard of Oz maintained his ruse for far too long. Eventually, he is revealed to be the fraud that he is by Toto, a scrappy...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist For many years now, my female friends have received an unusual invitation from me regarding Aug. 26, Women’s Equality Day (W.E.D.). About 16 years ago, at a mutual friend’s home, I...

By Ellen Snortland “Back up,” I say. “I don’t want to burn you.” Crowded by an unwanted dinner guest who is now in my kitchen, I lean over to pull out a large roasting pan of six game hens from the super-hot oven in my 1920s-era...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist Dear great, great-niece or nephew, I’m writing you knowing that by the time you read this I’ll have died. I’m writing this two weeks before my 100th birthday. I can’t imagine I’ll...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist “The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefitted from you not having any.” — Anonymous. To that quote I add: “For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a...

By Ellen Snortland Pasadena Weekly Columnist   Gestapo and Brown Shirts, the KGB, STASI, anyone? Just when I think I’ve heard it All, (capital “A” my emphasis), the Texas Legislature comes up with yet another dangerous...