Watching the country’s long-expected rapid descent into fascism is numbing. The images out of L.A. aren’t just reminiscent of 2020; they evoke a foreboding of something somehow worse. The scenes of tanks on train tracks into DC for a military parade are the hallmark of a dictatorship in the making, yet too many people remain […]
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Reflections on a Holiday
When I was a kid, our family vacations were almost always to the Florida panhandle. That seemed to be pretty common among West Tennessee families, since it was just a one-day drive to the beach. One summer, though, we went north – the only vacation we ever took that wasn’t to Florida. It was the […]
Family, against all odds
I had a friend in college who once said to me that, though he considered himself an atheist, he wanted so badly to believe there was something, anything out there watching over us with tender love and care. He just couldn’t. I was always struck by this because I felt the exact opposite: whereas he […]
