I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Be very afraid of men (or women) who question your patriotism
Be afraid, friends: Chicken Little says the sky is falling somewhere
Goodbye, Amelia (2000-2013)
Forgiveness has more power than political agenda in hateful tragedy
If you’re not feeling overwhelmed, you might not be paying attention
We never get enough of whatever lets us feel safe being ourselves
Briefly: Comic perfectly captured what I wrote about this weekend
What if ‘the Good Old Days’ were never as good as you remember?
Intellectual honesty mostly dead — but few partisans even care