Like most readers, I have a stack of books on my To-Read list. There’s a literal stack of them on the floor of my office that I’ve been making my way through over the course of the year. Almost all of them are used books, picked up at estate sales, Half Price Books, and from Little Free Libraries. Over the summer, I inadvertently discovered that I was on a YA kick. While “Ya Kick” sounds…
Today is my 20th anniversary of blogging. I wrote my first blog post on September 8, 2006, on my blog “Filter & Splice,” which is on the Blogger platform. Filter & Splice still exists in all its pink and green glory. It reminds me of a watermelon. When I started blogging, I never thought I’d still be at it 20 years, and multiple blogs, later. I blogged at Filter & Splice for just over…
This is the ninth and final installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. With the Cleanup on Aisle 47 series, I wanted to share ideas for rebuilding, improving and strengthening democracy in the United States. I’ve covered the following broad areas: 1) An overview of some of what has gone wrong in the country that has been deliberately caused by…