When I was a child, I was lucky and I didn't know it. No one close to me died. When I became a teenager, my grandfather died, and I was absolutely shocked, completely blindsided. I don’t know why. Perhaps no one had prepared me. But he was 88 years old, and few people lived to … Continue reading Election Thoughts
For decades there has been a debate about how government could and should raise money to pay for public services like schools and police protection, road maintenance and garbage disposal. Progressives like myself have long argued that there should be some kind of a wealth tax because those with higher incomes and assets often pay … Continue reading A Parable in Defense of Democracy
We’ve all been “sheltering” now, to one degree or another, for seven and a half months. Initially I was both alarmed and secretly pleased—because suddenly I could be my introvert self without apology. My biggest fear was that the whole thing would end too soon—before I completed the half-finished novel I’d been sitting on for the past … Continue reading Sheltering, Part 4
