My Bloody To-Do List

My Bloody To-Do List
I feel a kinship with the heart of this young adult fiction author and Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State U., Lisa Rowe Fraustino, as she finds her attention to her work in fiction and to the mundane task of daily living is compromised by her obsession with the Iraq war--needing to hunt for the truth that mainstream media denies us, needing to find a way to do "something to stop senseless wars", feeling like personal needs on her 'to-do list' like calling a dentist are meaningless in light of the enormity of Iraqi kids dying and suffering by the hundreds in a meaningless war.