A look at the history and documents that laid the groundwork for the freedoms we have today.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Someone ground five words out of this historic marker and painted it over. Was this a literal case of erasing history? Or was it editing to erase a slur?
Read More When history draws a blank, legend will fill it inReading Time: 7 minutes Misunderstandings arise when people draw circles to set themselves apart from others, or when others draw circles around them. Instead we should look at what we all have in common.
Read More Fun with Venn diagramsReading Time: 2 minutes My mother used to quote “an old saying” that she learned in her youth. It sounded like something from the Depression, but it was actually a World War II slogan. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without.” An old saying? Most of us had never seen economic conditions like those in […]
Read More Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do withoutReading Time: 2 minutes If I were a thread in the American flag, I’d be part of a white stripe below a red one, alongside the blue field. I hang with one color and stand by the other.
Read More Red, white, and blueReading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of […]
Read More Week in review: Week 26Reading Time: < 1 minute The State Anthem of Ukraine is a prayer and a promise from a people who have persevered over the centuries.
Read More Ще не вмерла УкраїниReading Time: < 1 minute The French have been singing this anthem since 1792. Free people will fight back in every way they can when despots seek to become their masters.
Read More ‘Marchons, marchons!’Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s officially Washington’s Birthday, squeezing Lincoln off the federal calendar. But it reminds us that presidents are, truly, just people.
Read More Presidents DayReading Time: 2 minutes MGM made FDR’s 1942 Fireside Chat on inflation into a propaganda short. The devil is still in the details.
Read More ‘Inflation’ — The movieReading Time: < 1 minute Abraham Lincoln had two faces: A gentle, humorous right side and a “primitive” left side. Doctors explain why.
Read More The two faces of Honest Abe