In 2005, I lived in Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from the White House. So as if many liberals, Democrats, and Independents weren't already hanging their heads across the nation the week of W's second inauguration,…

I think it was as I returned from getting lunch that I met John, an older black man who just appeared in our group during one of my field trips (he may have been my original reason for sitting up a row to eat my hot do…

The first thing about Saturday was that I set both alarms on my clock and all three on my cell phone to one minute intervals. By the time they had cycled through, the first five-minute snooze was over and the beeping beg…

(I've avoided politics in the past on this blog, but it is an election year and I don't have much else to talk about, so here goes!) I don't have anything against Hillary Clinton's running, and voters who believe i…