Regular readers of this blog will remember a post I wrote back in February imagining what a car-free Lark Street would look like. Then ca...

A while ago I put out a notice that I'm interested in hearing from local authors. Allow me to say how impressed I am by the talent we hav...

I won’t lie and tell you the cover and title of this book had absolutely nothing to do with my selection of this book. I just won’t – bec...

Guest post by Abbe Hanley, Language warning My earliest memory of racism is from elementary school. A boy told me my skin was “dirty like...

It feels like a luxury being able to step away from all that's going not just in our country, but around the world. I recognize that some...

"No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old, learned, hidden biases I need to examine. It ...

Content warning: language, descriptions of violence I had a blog. I really did. But I’m not sure how to share it today, just like I wasn’...

My friend and brother, Percy Thomas, is tired of just posting on social media We're all angry, frustrated, and want to do more than vent ...

Self-awareness is a son-of-a-bitch but a necessary one. I finished the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo about a week ago and it mak...

I live in California, which was the first state to require all residents to shelter-in-place. We’ve been under this condition since Mar...

I read the first book in this series, London Falling by Emma Carr, as my monthly freebie for being an Amazon Prime member and I was pleas...

Tomorrow, May 20, Troy City School Superintendent John Carmello is proposing the removal of the entire Reading Department in the Troy cit...

While the novel coronavirus keeps most of us holed up at home, sustained by an ever increasing deluge of deliveries of all kinds, some of...

Content Warning: language, child abuse, suicidal thoughts Five years ago, at nearly thirty years old, I ended my relationship with my mot...

It started with one tweet from 17 year old Lincoln Debenham on Tuesday, April 14. "Hi @BarackObama! Like most high school/college senior...

Look, I get that writing this may be doing exactly what I'm suggesting you stop doing, but it needs to be said. I don't care how "woke" y...

So very often I see adults complaining about the "liberal" education their children are getting in the New York State public school syste...

I wasn't going to write about this because it feels too personal, but a friend reached out after I had checked in to St. Peter's Hospital...

The notion of protests in various state capitols being about opening back up businesses and the economy is straight bullshit. I know it. ...

When I first saw this book on a recommended reading site back in 2017, I added it to my never ending list of books to read. It was publis...