In the moment: grief and change

Vigils and prayer services and walks across a beautiful bridge have not magically made us whole, but they are a Continue reading →

McConnell’s impossible centrism

[UPDATE AND COMMENT: I wrote this essay yesterday – from Europe – before Governor Nikki Haley’s press conference at which Continue reading →

I was a stranger and you welcomed me

Heartbreakingly sad, horrifying, frightening, senseless. And so forth. I feel so terrible about the mass shooting at AME Emanuel—a church Continue reading →