Lessons in Moral Courage

by Mona Shaw “The fundamental problem is whether we are going to tank the entire economy to save 2.5% of the population which is (1)...

by Mona Shaw In the late 1980s, I was standing in a line at the checkout counter at Hy-Vee grocery store on Waterfront Drive in Io...

by Mona Shaw For decades I wondered what I was doing wrong.   I sure pissed off a lot of people who were ostensibly on my side. I ...

by Mona Shaw Mike and I became friends in 2007, when I lived in Des Moines. He was a regular in a soup kitchen where I volunteered. T...

by Mona Shaw Red baiting in this election is going to get someone killed. The Red Baiters are getting traction, and it’s lea...

by Mona Shaw It has always astonished me how much rancor you can bring down on your head simply because you don’t want people to s...

by Mona Shaw I’ve never been to China. I never will travel there. But, most of things in my apartment have been. Most arrived ...