To Vote or Not to Vote, That Is the Question
I got a ballot in the mail the other day. On it were the names of people I’d never heard of and I was asked to vote Yes or No for each of them. To be fair, there … Read More
Finding Your Courage
I can’t find the origin of that statement — I’ve used it for over twenty years — and fear it may be lost. I’ll use it anyway. I sat down to write a post on last Saturday’s Women’s March, … Read More
Racism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
This past Monday would have been the 89th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in 1929, the same year as my mother (sorry Ma; did you want to keep that a secret?), MLK could still be alive and productive … 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
An Unexpected #MeToo Aftershock
Who among us hasn’t been touched, in some way, by the snowballing power of the #MeToo campaign that swept through our lives recently? It’s impact has been so great, it has been chosen as Time Magazine‘s cover for “Person of the … Read More
Hate Crimes and Bias Incidents: A Primer
Hate is on the rise here in America. I don’t believe anyone would argue that fact. As the Washington Post reported recently, “police departments across the country reported a rise in the number of crimes motivated by bias.” Hate eats … 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
In Praise of Skepticism
Well, it happened again. I choose an important and timely topic — the importance of maintaining a healthy skepticism — but, in the course of putting the post together, I veer off into another land. Could that have been … Read More
How To Stay Informed in This Age of Fake News
Last January, one week after the presidential oath of office, Eliot Cohen, Director of the Strategic Studies Program at Johns Hopkins, published an article in TheAtlantic.com from which this quote is taken: Some Americans can fight abuses of power and disastrous … Read More