Friend, forgive me for not rehashing the gnashing of teeth that I've seen over the last 48 hours. Plenty of ink has been spilled over whiplash polling and Supreme Court decisions, and I don't think you need to hear it from yet another angle. And honestly – hear me out – I think talking about it … Continue reading There’s No Silver Bullet
Yesterday, in the quiet dark of the early morning hours, I sat down at my little yellow kitchen bistro table, poured my coffee, and opened my computer. I spend the first few minutes of every day in that very spot, reading up on the day before. Historian Heather Cox Richardson tells me how today relates … Continue reading The Grassroots Does It Again
"Listen, I've got something very obvious to tell you. You're not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me, it means we are incredibly strong. We need to utilize this power. To not give up. To remember we are a huge power that his being oppressed by these bad dudes. We don't realize … Continue reading When Good People Do Nothing
We have one more chance—in Lincoln’s words, a “last best hope”—to bring our democracy back from the dead. It will be like a complex medical rescue that requires just the right interventions, in just the right sequence, at just the right speed: amputation, transfusion, multiple-organ transplant, stabilization, rehabilitation. Each step will be very hard, and … Continue reading We Are Living in a Plastic Moment
Every year around this time I start writing about gardens. I can't help myself. The seed that's so small in February a single breath will send it flying across the room becomes a bossy five-foot-tall monster by September. That's magical. So I love starting seeds. But I love planting bulbs even more. They're easier. I … Continue reading It’s Seed Starting Time
It's official. E. Jean Carroll is a national treasure, and a hero. No doubt you're aware of the backstory: in the mid-1990s, Donald Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman department store. She described it in a 2019 memoir; Trump denied the allegation, and then defamed her – calling her a … Continue reading He, Himself, Was Nothing
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. ~Babe Ruth Yesterday should have been a celebration. Roe would have been 51 years old. Instead, it was a day to contemplate all that we've lost ... and what we are to do about it. It made me think back to the night the Dobbs … Continue reading On Resilience, Roe, and Monster Slayers
Last night, Donald Trump did exactly what literally everyone predicted, and won the Iowa caucuses – securing 51% of the vote. It's true that he trounced his opponents, who split the anti-Trump vote nearly equally (DeSantis at 21% and Haley at 19%). But it's also true that 49% of caucus-goers chose Not-Trump over Trump. So as … Continue reading Some Much-Needed Perspective and Context for Iowa
You know this already, but I'm a complete nerd. As more evidence of that obvious fact: one of my very favorite Christmas presents is a planner. It's glorious. Innovative, even. I've never seen a planner like it. (You can see it here.) It's like it was designed for my wacky brain, which wants to see … Continue reading Small Deeds To Do: Why I Love My New Planner
It's only been two days into 2024, but I can already feel the difference in the air. There's an energy. A feistiness. A buzzy, busy feeling. I'm seeing it in emails and newsletters, headlines and videos. The stock market is at an all-time high. Our economic recovery is the strongest of the G7. Inflation is … Continue reading Sharing Good News … Liberally
Small Deeds Done 