Month: July 2016

  • the warmest night of November

     Editor’s note:  I wrote this on the night that Barack Obama became the first African-American president.  I along with countless others, wept at the promise of the degradation of racism in America. The promise, somewhat tarnished and sullied even by the boundless harassment of the man seated in the nation’s highest office, remains still.  We…

  • Don’t Trip, Vote!

    Don’t Trip, Vote!

    I’m talking to more and more younger people who tell me that they will not vote for Donald J. Trump and that they are not in favor of voting for Hillary Clinton either.  When asked, their response is that they will not vote.   I am concerned about this for two reasons.  First, as I…