The morning after the United States Capitol in DC was breached by pro-Trumpian rioters, I woke up as if shaken by a bad dream. To be clear, this is a repeated nightmare that has been going on in this country for centuries and one that has been increasingly widespread in its visibility and violence in […]
+ Read MoreThis week, attending a town hall meeting with my congressional representative, I was lucky to get a chair. Others stood, filling the banquet hall of a country restaurant despite the fact that we’d had less than 24 hours’ notice and it was mid-morning on a weekday. I thought of other representatives’ recent town hall meetings […]
+ Read MoreThe upcoming presidential inauguration has raised more than a few questions for me: How do I “show up” for the inauguration of a president who refuses to see me except through lenses of diminishment and mockery? And How do I bear witness to the peaceful transfer of power that our democracy requires when I am […]
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