No title or catchy phrase is appropriate tonight
I understand how many of you are feeling. Exhausted. Sad. Horrified. Maybe ready to just give up? I get it. The thing is – we can’t. We just can’t. […]
Stop Defending Your Right to be Offended
Since the latest news from the White House broke at 4:30 pm this afternoon, the media and those of us who watch it have been aflutter with disgust at the […]
21st Century Feminism
Like so many things, feminism has baffled me, specifically, why the word and movement seem to carry such a negative connotation – in 2017. It is silly, really. I have […]
Alabama Senate Race, Obamacare Repeal, Puerto Rico, Russia and the NFL
In these last few months, blogging has been my outlet. I have no illusions of grandeur; my friend Susannah is convinced that I should work for Rachel Maddow. I am […]
2021
2021 is the year that experts predict will see the passing of the World War II generation. As of 2017, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs estimated that less than […]
Avoiding Tyranny – It Takes Work
Sophomore year of college I took a history course on Ancient Rome. I liked the professor and so every Tuesday night from 6:00 – 8:50 p.m. I sat in […]
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Katy Tur was the NBC/MSNBC journalist assigned to the Trump campaign. She spent a year and a half following him from rally to debate, uniquely incurring his wrath from the […]
Tammy Wynette, Tea Bags and Baking
This post, or parts of it, has been twenty-five years in the making. Unfortunately, it does not have the ending I wanted or the one America needed. But there […]
Appomattox
The history bug bit me in third grade. In retrospect, it would have been more advantageous to have been attacked by an athletic germ; perhaps then I would not have […]
Charlottesville
My friend Samantha is really really smart. She hired me into my current company (but that is not what makes her smart) and over the last several years I have […]
History Will Judge and So Will Our Kids
On November 4, 2008, America elected its first black president. Like many Americans, I had watched the campaign from the beginning; from the Iowa caucuses to the nominating conventions, […]
Etched in Stone
When Carrie and I were growing up, our Grandma Johanning (Grandpa got credit too) gave us books for Christmas and birthdays. Sometimes we got magazine subscriptions but in those early […]