 About a year after the horror of Sandy Hook, I wrote this essay for Momtastic. It wasn't my first piece on gun control (and the spineless lawmakers who repeatedly choose profits and politics over our children's lives), nor would it be my last. Now, in the wake of the Valentine's Day shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead, I'm posting it again, feeling stirrings of hope that the astounding and powerful swell of students all across the nation demanding change will succeed where we mothers, and even the parents of 20 murdered first-graders, did not. #NeverAgain!
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 Four-time Oscar nominee. One half of one of Hollywood's most enduring celebrity marriages. Mother to a transgendered son. Fierce feminist and Planned Parenthood advocate. Winner of Humanitarian honors. And star of one of my favorite films ever, Twentieth Century Women. Tomorrow I interview the supremely talented Annette Bening, who takes a turn as a faded actress in the upcoming The Seagull, based on Chekov's play, and who turns 60 this May. Watch this space.
 Thursday, February 15th is Plastic Waste Awareness Day. I'm very proud of the student group I mentor, Pelham Eliminates Plastics (PEP) for forging a partnership with our locally owned and supported grocery store, DeCicco & Sons, to generate awareness about the dangers of single-use plastics including bags, water bottles, straws, coffee lids, and more. On 2/15 DeCicco's will only hand out paper bags to its customers, each one stamped with the official PEP sticker in an effort to combat plastic waste, raise public awareness, and tackle this problem at the source: the consumer. When the consumer makes better choices, the planet wins.
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