April 4, 2016 48 years ago today, Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee. Sometime between then and now, all of the things that he was are gone from…

(For Em, who embodies this idea). My wife and I were a bit overwhelmed this morning by all of the news and people’s responses to it.  Terrorism in Belgium, elections…

“A nation divided against itself can not stand” — Abraham Lincoln Wow. The Republican Party is falling apart. Actually, the insane wing of the Republican Party is falling apart.  They…

If ever there was a societal response to Black Lives Matter, it came today. Tamir Rice, a young Black boy was killed by a police officer with no discussion because…

Oh, my God! How long will the wicked prosper in America? It’s Thanksgiving Day and my break from reading the news should have been longer, apparently. It has been a…

November 12, 2015 Dear child of the future: If you’re a student at Geraldine Claytor Magnet Academy in Bridgeport, CT and you had to research who she was, I wanted…

Someone posted on Facebook “Why in the richest country in the world do we have the second highest poverty?” This spurred me to think about politics and candidates and what’s…

In my ongoing quest to be rational, I will apologize. I called Mike Huckabee’s opinion “stupid” on my Facebook post yesterday in the case of his saying that his planned…

Sorry to borrow/appropriate “keep hope alive” but I am writing today because I feel that it is urgent and important to support Planned Parenthood during this very weird moment in…