I know I said that, but now’s the time to make an exception. A colleague once told me, “I’m not interested in politics.” I was taken aback. The man was well-educated, a history teacher who drilled his seventh-graders on the…
It’s lovely, but can I trust it? I know better than to believe what I see I write this as I’m sitting on the patio of our corner lot, gazing out at the linden trees and honey locusts that reach…
And here’s why It’s not that I’ve stopped caring. Quite the opposite. The last five years in American politics have been especially brutal, but I’m not pulling, turtle-like, into my shell — as tempting as that can be. And boy…
But yesterday proved me wrong, and I’m sad I could have grabbed the strap to my shoulder bag at any time The leather tote that held my small purse, laptop, iPad, and journal hung by one of its straps from…
President Biden used the G-word. It matters On April 24, 2021, President Biden kept a campaign promise He became the first U.S. president to call the massacre of Armenians by the Turkish government between 1915 and 1923 what it was: a…