Democracy Is No Joke

I often ask myself why I take our democracy so seriously. Was it because my grandmother, who was just barely a generation out from the system of slavery in the US was so fond of Abraham Lincoln that she raised me to be a Republican or was it that Democrat, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that showed me that no party … Continue reading Democracy Is No Joke

The Alchemy of Laughter

Laughter is Life Affirming We are living in serious times. Seriously. We are living in serious times where far too many of our minds have become places where laughter goes to die. Even as someone who was relentlessly bullied both physically and otherwise all the way into adulthood, I can see that some of our efforts to protect and/or feel safe by equating words with … Continue reading The Alchemy of Laughter