I was back on the picket lines at the NRA headquarters on August 14. Ever the pragmatist I have to confess to some slow-growing doubts about the utility of this monthly picketing  –does it change anything, move the needle at all, this standing there with a sign when in the last few days we’ve experienced […]

“Send her back…,” chanted the crowd led by the Chanter–in-Chief , he evoking earlier chants of, “Lock her up,” all making me wonder if Trump would have put an accusing finger in my wife’s face had she participated in the recent sit-in in Washington, D.C., where a group of Catholic nuns was arrested and handcuffed.  […]

On May 31st, 12 people were killed and four were injured in Virginia Beach, VA. It was the worst shooting in American history since November 18th, when 12 people were shot and killed at the Borderline Bar and Grill in California.  Virginia loses roughly 26 people per month to gun deaths, 1,000 each year. Reacting […]

The recovery from my stroke on February 13, which one doctor called a “minor miracle,” continues.  I see family, visit friends, shop, walk a great deal,  have begun work again, and I’ve even played a little tennis although I wasn’t quite certain what to do with that stick in my hand. I emerged from the […]