I am so sorry for the Texans I am acquainted with. To say nothing of those good people I only know by secondhand accounts from their worried friends and relations in less-frigid climes. Almost to a one, the Texans in my orbit are furious with their elected state and local …
The Constitution guarantees all American citizens the right to cast a ballot in any election they’re eligible to vote in. The evolution of the Constitution — through its amendments — shows how America’s thinking about allowing and prohibiting voting has changed. Where the original reserved voting for the white, landed …
The cats and I were busier than usual this past weekend. I, because I had real office-job-work to do all weekend, plus intermittent snow-shoveling. They, because it was the Great Backyard Bird Count and they had to brush up their ornithology. (Good thing I keep a handsome leatherette Audubon guide …
I had thought to write a diatribe tonight. Something to scour the smug smiles from the lips of senatorial Republicans, congressionally conspiring to ignore infamy. Three ideas kept me from such grim (if necessary) thoughts. Indeed, I first sought a winter poem to introduce tonight’s theme, of cold and snow …
I have had music and warmth on my mind this week. Not because life has been particularly full of either; if I’m honest, it’s been the usual February cold, damp and dreary. But because February 1 is my new year’s day, a day fit for optimism, I’m going to bring …
