Continue Reading The Day After I went to bed last night with a heavy heart, thinking how racism sells and how the efforts to suppress the vote,…
Continue Reading Distractions I iron when I need therapeutic diversion. I love to iron and to see all that crinkly stuff somehow get back in…
Continue Reading Would-be Revolutionaries Today is Guy Fawkes Day – or night, as the case may be. The annual commemoration of the gun powder plot is…
Continue Reading Another Hike One of the things I like about Portland is the fact that you can immerse yourself in intense scenery with only an…
Continue Reading Looking Up Let’s take a deep breath and look up. Into an, admittedly, grey sky here in Oregon, but flecks of brightness can be…
Continue Reading Cautionary Words, Illustrated These Christmas ornaments were for sale at a gun show at the Louisville, Kentucky, Expo Center on the same day that an…
Continue Reading The Words of Others Hudson River Birdstrike I was struck by the force of some voices I read yesterday and thought I’d let them speak here today. Here…
Continue Reading When Words Fail: Retreating to Numbers Recent statistics from the Anti-Defamation-League: (before Pittsburgh) Number of anti-Semitic incidents was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year…
Continue Reading The Power of Inspiration Hatred alone won’t do I want us to go into the weekend contemplating these words: “Powerful factions, as part of their intimidation tactics, deliberately…
Continue Reading Akamai Brah Akamai Brah means very smart pal in Hawaiian. I have one of those, although this Hawaiian has long since been transplanted to…
