Watching a reporter interview historian Timothy Snyder one evening, I sat up in my chair when he laid out his thoughts about Donald Trump’s strategy for the current 2024 Presidential election. Snyder presumed the former president knew he would lose the contest and was taking unp
I’ve given up worrying about the existence of God. Discussions about diety I leave to the young. After decades spent thinking about the inscrutable, all I gleaned from religious precept was that misogyny rises from it like a noxious odor. I’m not alone in this opinion. Donna N
A writer near my age admitted on Facebook that though she loved the feel of paper between her fingers and the smell of a new book, she’d shifted to an e-reader. No longer comfortable with small print, she needed an electronic device to adjust for size. Much in life is a tradeof
A friend sent me the name of a woman she thought would make a wonderful guest for my book Vlog, Just Read It. A historian with a new volume published about the lives of notable women, her appearance on the program seemed apt, so, I extended an invitation for her to appear in an upcomi
I shared a person’s comment on Facebook the other day that called for the end of perks to members of Congress until they started legislating. Many on my thread favored the idea. No one opposed it. The citizenry, it appeared, was united in its impatience with its leaders. Unfortuna
A young television commentator recently dissed Joe Biden’s chances of winning reelection in 2024. Barely old enough to qualify as a voter, she had no qualms about her prediction. She explained the President risked losing young voters because he defended Israel’s war on Gaza. He wa
A question lingers in my mind three years after my mother’s death. Was I a dutiful daughter in her declining years? An earlier blog recounts an incident when I failed her. She’d taken a spill as the pair of us left a restaurant during a rain storm. She was 101 at the time an
I know him. When he was a teenager, I crawled around in his head as his English Teacher. Sadly, months ago, his wife of many years died unexpectedly. A man in his 70s, he fell into a well of grief so deep he considered joining her. I held my breath as he struggled to find his
Some people can be fooled some of the time, but not all of the people can be fooled all of the time unless they want to be. Evangelical Christians seem to be among the latter. They have every reason to doubt Donald Trump’s religious convictions. The number of fraud cases he has
Like the boy who cried wolf, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has long blamed oligarchs for weakening our democracy. Of late, his prognostications ring true. Vast fortunes concentrated in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals have weakened the middle class, leading the