BOSTON – While Beacon Hill lawmakers have kept back a proposed law that would ensure access for transgender people to public accommodations based on how they identify sexually, legislative and legal debates over similar "Bathroom Bills" have heated up recently nationwide.
In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, drew widespread rebukes after he signed a bill into law last week that bans local municipalities from passing their own Bathroom Bills. The measure also requires transgender people to use restrooms and locker rooms according to their biological sex.
Hope springs eternal but there are a finite number of springs we get to enjoy, so it is a good season to check our life's road map and destination, and recalculate if necessary. Have we gone off the rails? Are we looking for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Could it be we've overlooked things of true value like love, while settling for a basket of Peeps and jelly beans?
With the perspective of a grandmother, I look back on my many springs and many blogs with a sense of urgency in view of current events. The following blog was written in 2004 before my sons flew the nest. The nest has been empty a good while but a half-dozen grand-babies already are giving a big return on my husband's and my investments.
