Just Keep Swimming COVID-19 Category
Without a Country. Why isn’t this obvious?
Posted on January 16, 2021 Leave a Comment
In 1973, Cliff Robertson starred in an ABC Movie of the Week production of Edward Everett Hale’s story, “The Man Without a Country.” In it, an American officer is being court martialed for consorting with Aaron Burr. He wanted to make a point about the disunity of the new country and so blurted out, “Damn […]
White People, What Are We Thinking?
Posted on June 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
It’s time for white people to check our thinking. Right now. What are we thinking? I don’t mean, as in, What are we THINKING?? No, I mean, as in, what are we as white people actually thinking right now as the U.S. moves into week two of protests and month three of social distancing? What […]
Just Keep Swimming: Pandemic Edition
Posted on March 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
This is my first blog post since everything has changed. Everything. So where to start? To begin with, today I am not going to talk about the politics of it all. I wanted to lay out the sequence of events so that I can remember them–where I was, what I was doing. Reflections will come […]
