On this morning—our first snow on the way—I’m unsure about some things and more certain than ever about others. I’m unsure how strongly to politicize this blog, so let me simply write…
I’m quite certain, sixty years ago today, swimming in the lake in front of our house was most important thing in my young life. A new blue ’55 Chevy was parked in…
Fifty years ago people marched from Selma to Montgomery to secure their basic human rights. As our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center say “The march continues.”
I find today a good day to remember both how much has changed and how much more remains to be done until we are “free at last!” Perhaps we can find…
Today I’m remembering the many who marched—and those who died all along the way—as history was written 49 years ago in the marches from Selma to Montgomery (and beyond). As we…
Had he lived, Martin Luther King Jr. would be only 84 today. Sadly that is an age at which many of his contemporaries now enjoy being wise elders and grandparents.…
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