Thursday morning I will do what just a few months ago seemed unthinkable.  I will load my boy up onto his school bus and send him off to his very first day of kindergarten.  And then I will promptly fall apart.
It’s the moment I spent all summer both planning and avoiding.  I marked each day [...]

I was reminded today that it’s been 15 years since Jerry Garcia’s death.  Wow.  I’ve been blessed with a little boy who has an affinity for the music that marked so much of my personal development that, in some ways, the physical absence has been less these recent years.  But fifteen years is a long [...]

When repealing the 14th Amendment was merely a talking point of the fringe right, like many others I dismissed it as lunacy that could never gain any traction.  I mean, who in their right mind, in 2010, would want to return to the days of Dred Scott and de jure segregation, separate but equal and [...]