For those paying attention, sometimes fevered attention, to the election this year, it can be hard to look away. It’s a kind of self-reinforcing ailment in which you think that if you are not looking, something bad may occur. Not FOMO, but perhaps Fear of Not Doing...
It’s a time for doing what we can, as this election cycle turns into the homestretch, all the competitors lengthening their strides, accelerating for a possible photo finish. The heat on the track is increasing. Most of the things we do as individual citizens, however...
It’s a political season. We must take encouragement where we find it. Every murmured “I like your button”, every half-smile, every thumbs-up is a reminder that national bombast, whatever its volume, is not the only method of communication in the country we love. We...
Isn’t there always a day when we can feel the waning of summer and the onrush of the fall? Summer joys become even more sweet as we move inevitably along. What were your summer joys this year? Among mine, while traveling in northern Michigan: Joyous unbridled teens...
I’ve been traveling. In a small-town commercial laundromat, I struck up a conversation with the attendant by commenting that she might find it frustrating to deal with old machines and quarters, and summer visitors. She banged the side of the coin slide, hard, and it...