September 28, 2026 You probably won’t be surprised that Trump is charging ahead at full speed with his “triumphal arch” on the Potomac. However, it’s not too late to speak out against this gold-plated, 250-foot, $100 million travesty. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, an “independent” federal agency now stacked with MAGA types, has just… Continue reading Save our history. Stop the arch.
Category: Trump
A pandemic diary revisited
July 30, 2026 Below is a short story I wrote six years ago in the hellish early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although it's fiction, I believe it captures that moment and the mindset of the deniers who were already up in arms about restrictions. Those times are worth remembering in the wake of Senate… Continue reading A pandemic diary revisited
Capitol letters and musical memories
June 15, 2026 Jazz great Herbie Hancock and the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center (Photo by Openverse) As of this morning, the tarps are still hiding the wall at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, so we can't be sure the hijacker's name has been pulled down. However, it gives… Continue reading Capitol letters and musical memories
Give me back that old-time religion
April 20, 2026 The First United Methodist Church of Kalamazoo A president who thinks he's Jesus. A defense secretary who doesn't know the difference between the actual Bible and the Book of Samuel (L. Jackson) in "Pulp Fiction." Although I'm no longer a person of faith, I'm grateful that I grew up with real Christian… Continue reading Give me back that old-time religion
Sins of omission: 1865 and today
Photo by Pexels.com January 20, 2026 Let's take a little quiz. Which statement is true? The January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol was instigated by George Soros and Nancy Pelosi. Only a few of our founding fathers were slaveholders. Troops from Alabama attacked Atlanta in the Civil War. World War II started when… Continue reading Sins of omission: 1865 and today
Unfriendly ghosts
November 11, 2025 Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com In sepia, the image sears into my thunderstruck brain. The man staring up at me from Ancestry.com has my high forehead and deep, penetrating eyes, the same long jaw and a head too large for his shoulders. His mouth is narrow and unsmiling, his hands on… Continue reading Unfriendly ghosts