During Easter weekend I was in line at a Walgreens pharmacy with my niece waiting to get my mother’s prescription. There was one man ahead of us, who turned to us to chat. “Happy Easter,” he said pleasantly. I smiled and said it back. “It’s too bad people don’t know…

When Hillary Clinton was introduced (as if she needed to be) to a packed room at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on a recent evening, the room erupted in sustained applause at the mention of how many votes she received in the 2016 presidential election. Much to my surprise, as…

In the course of an hour, Chip and Joanna Gaines transform a property into a dreamy home. With Magnolia Network at our disposal, we can now see them do it over and over. I don’t know about you, but new suggestions for viewing aren’t landing on me right now. I’m…

“The teal eternity of the Atlantic Ocean had severed them so completely from what had once been their home that it was as if nothing had ever existed before, as if everything and everyone they cherished had simply vanished from the earth.” That paragraph in The 1619 Project: A New…

To borrow some phrasing from Salt-N-Pepa, let’s talk about speech, ba-by. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be. Maybe you read that lede and thought it was clever. Good, keep reading. Perhaps you read it and thought…

Josh Spodek has unplugged his refrigerator because he doesn’t need it anymore. I’m going to start there. It’s where his journey in being more environmentally conscious led him and frankly that bit of information has the power to scare me right off the whole effort. You know what else puts…

For a while now I’ve been writing about how it feels to be caught in that place where people you love are Trump devotees and you need to figure out how to coexist. With each passing day, month, year, it gets harder. Sound familiar? I see you. I follow your…

I shuddered a lot last week. Each time I saw someone on social or conventional media suggest we “shut down” our Facebook accounts or just “delete the app,” a chill went up my arms. No. Just no. I realize it’s what all the cool kids were saying when Facebook, Instagram…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As I write this, the death count in the United States due to COVID-19 is nearing 700,000. We’re so far in, so numb, you’ll keep reading and the gravity of it will likely not land. But if I show you the photos and videos I shot on…