Democracy

Like many of you, I am on a lot of email lists. The majority of them are asking me for money, so I don’t really pay attention to them. They have become the throw-away snail mail flyers that seem to be the only thing keeping our postal system from shutting down. But there are several…

This past Friday was Juneteenth — a celebration of the day enslaved people in Galveston, TX were informed they were free 1865. That proclamation came two and a half years after it freedom was originally proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln. That’s a long time coming. It got me thinking about what enslaved peoples were waiting for….

I understand it is poor form to start anything out with “Back in my day . . .”, but I keep coming back to that starting point. Maybe it’s just part and parcel of being my age. Still, it offers a starting point for my observations this week. Back in my day, “Civics” was a…