A woman in her mid-50s, whom I’d known for two decades, recently dropped me from her Facebook circle.  Once an advocate for women’s rights, she acquired a boyfriend, and not long after, I noted changes in the tenor of her remarks.  Each time she defended MAGA values, I countered

The anthropologist Margaret Mead spent her life studying humans and came up with observations that go unchallenged today. One of them is, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.  But, like the

Last week, my blog was about finding our better angels in the worst of times, a term Abraham Lincoln coined in his first inaugural address.   I am familiar with my darker ones, anger, impatience, and vanity among them.  Less aggressive are the purer spirits. Sometimes, when I’ve

“Not my problem,” said Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noam about Andry Hernandez Romero. He’s the gay hairdresser from Venezuela she sent to a prison in El Salvador without due process, and the same woman who shot her dog because the pup was difficult to train. Nope. We’

After solving my computer problem over the telephone, my hardware guru and I paused for a chat. Not a fan of Donald Trump, he said he couldn’t wait until the 2026 election. Though I shared his impatience, I admitted I wasn’t sure there would be another election. His reply shot acr

During my interview with Willy Vlautin, for Just Read It, the writer said he couldn’t understand why working-class people imagined the rich would act in their interests.  It’s a question I’ve also considered in my blogs.  Pecking orders exist in Nature, so it seems natural for

May 2025 marks two important anniversaries. This blog, Write Away, began May 19, 2010.   We’ve been around for 15 years.  Thank you readers for your loyalty and support. Just Read It, our YouTube book talk show first aired May 27, 2014, making this month its 10th  anniversar

“Are we there yet?” A child too long confined to a car will often ask this question.  Who would have guessed that as Donald Trump bends the rule of law, drawing the country near to a Constitutional crisis, we can hear a similar query on the lips of people in the streets?  “Are

Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), a U. S. Republican House member from Georgia is a believer.  She believes in Donald Trump. She believes in MAGA’s anger. She believes in Q-Anon conspiracy theories, one of which holds that Donald Trump is secretly fighting an international cabal of

When Senator Cory Booker announced he would filibuster to protest Donald Trump’s policies,  a woman on  Facebook wondered if his actions would have an impact. She was trawling for opinions, not data, as the filibuster had yet to occur. At best, any reply would have to be grounded