FINDING MY TOPIC
Here I am two weeks out from my next blog post and I can’t decide what it’ll be on. I feel like I’m staring at a restaurant menu. Whether everything looks great or nothing looks good, I’m having a hard … Read More
Remembering Kent State
On Monday, May 4, 1970, at twenty minutes past noon, 28 National Guardsmen fired 61 shots into a crowd of college students on the hill above, leaving four dead and nine wounded. It lasted just 13 seconds. This was something … Read More
Earth Day 2018
Earth Day began in 1970, officially. And I have no memory of it at all. My first one was the following year while I was a student at NYU. My memory of it is fleeing: I’m walking along … Read More
50 Years Ago, Again
What do you remember from April, 1968? Do your memories revolve around sports? Fashion? Popular culture? The news? Politics? Who were you dating back then? Where were you in school? What do you remember from fifty years ago? Here’s what … Read More
My Bi-Annual Daylight Saving Time Rant (yawn)
While wandering around the Internet looking for that pleasant little visual, I stumbled across this fun, headline: . . . the best way to prevent death by Daylight Saving Time may be to make it permanent, according to Standard Time abolitionists. Death by … Read More
Joyeuse Saint Valentin!
Happy Valentine’s Day, Lovers and Friends and grandmothers … Or, as they say in France, Joyeuse Saint Valentin! We in the US know how we celebrate Valentine’s Day: sentimental card first, always with a picture of a heart; styrofoam-tasting candy hearts … Read More
My Annual Christmas Eve Post for 2017
For those of you fairly new to And So It Goes, I first discovered John McCutcheon’s song, Christmas in the Trenches, in 2013. It tells an amazing and long forgotten true story, one that I’m committed to sharing. I’ve been posting it every Christmas … Read More
November 22, our day that will live in infamy
Today is the day before Thanksgiving (always the fourth Thursday in November), the most quintessentially American holiday I can name, right up there with July 4th (our Independence Day). This day before Thanksgiving is traditionally a very busy day for … Read More