Hey friends! July was hooooot and sloooow around here, but I did manage to put some words down in some places. Hoping August is cooler and more productive as we wind down and get ready for (gulp!) back to school. Here’s a summary of what went down in July. It’s mostly funny stuff with a […]
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” (Elie Wiesel, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize) I remember the first time I read Night—in high school. I was moved by Elie Wiesel’s words, but I was also distracted by high school naivety and the superficiality of my very safe, very stable world. Night impacted my 17-year-old soul, […]
The older I get, the more I see what is painfully obvious: Our nation remains burdened by the plague of racism. And yet, while I find this fact to be indisputable, so many disagree. For every fellow American who nods along with me and laments our pathetic state of racial disparities, there seem to be more who say […]