One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard On Friday night and Saturday, I attended the 30-year reunion of The … Read more
Yesterday before, during, and after the Ford and Kavanaugh testimony may have been a new low point on social media, in my observation. Never have I seen so many people being so nasty to each other. (I’m not going to post examples, because I don’t want to call anyone specific out. I fear that’s what … Read more
I don’t consider the war on human trafficking a particularly partisan one. In fact, when I speak to a group as a representative of the North Alabama Human Trafficking Force, somewhere near the end I make that very point, saying something like: This is not a Democratic issue, or a Republican issue, or a white … Read more