by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Op-Ed
Dear Maya: My soul is filled with a sadness I have only known since the death of one of my closest friends. Meeting you was on my bucket list, but it was not to be. I did not know you personally and yet, and yet… At the tender and decades ago age of 23, I was browsing...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Op-Ed
The Opinionated Bitch – Dear Monica Lewinsky Dear Monica, Hi. Carol Baker here, also known as “The Opinionated Bitch”. Don’t be put off by the nickname. It’s just what people call me because I have a tendency to calls ‘em like I sees ‘em. I’d like to talk to you...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
**Editor’s note: While this was published in June, when the world was told Mandela’s death was imminent, these were my reflections on one of my personal heroes. Though he hung on for another 6 months, my feelings are as true today as they were back then....
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
“Those people” is a phrase to which I have become deeply sensitized. “Those people” implies an other-ness I can’t seem to wrap my brain around. Maybe it’s because it’s always seemed so easy for me to relate to others on some level – even those with whom I deeply...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
My World Without God Goggles The first 40 years of my life were spent being assured that I believed in God, being told what to believe in God, and being told that people who didn’t believe in the same God I was supposed to believe in were just wrong. Being born...
