The Devil's Gift

I hear talk of “a long, dark winter.” And I hear talk of “light at the end of the tunnel.”

“Well, what about Thanksgiving?” What about it? It’s contrived, isn’t it?

And yet, seventy-three million Americans voted for the president. How could they?

I worried Tuesday night. I worried the next day. I worried all week

Now that you’re leaving I will say, I did admire a few things about you.

My longtime friend is a secular Jew, which makes him, I think, a humanist. He hasn’t renounced his Judaic heritage, but he takes it with a grain of salt.

Paula and I drove to Frederick this past Sunday to have lunch with two friends we hadn’t seen for what […]

The president tested positive for COVID. I gloated. I told myself not to, but I couldn’t stop.

I read the news. I study the polls. I remember. My stomach’s in knots.

Just when I thought the winds of change were blowing in the right direction, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has to up and die.