Opinion

Abortion. I have tried to write about this topic a dozen times.

I typically coordinated a mammogram during my birthday month. I was distracted with life, and was six months late. I received a call to come in for a second mammogram and was taken immediately to a room for a

Bare Bones Night. In the back alley of a community theater, Rob waits patiently until finally, from within, a skeleton, SCOTT, emerges.

The worrywarts of the world are among us. I say worrywarts of the world simply because the worries over immigrants and “losing our way of life” isn’t solely an American problem. Italy recently elected a neo-fascist party into power and Sweden, of all places, voted for a far right party worried over the same issues. Thank you social media, the internet and the failure to “check your sources” as I’ve harped about in past columns. In this country, book bans, the talk of critical race theory and replacement theory are all the rage for those folks who’ve lost their minds to anger and suspicion.

Cowboy Cookies I found this recipe many years ago in the American Profile insert of the Lake County News Chronicle. I have seen similar recipes with different names.

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I listened to a podcast recently (choralosophy.com, Episode 110) in which one of my favorite Braver Angels staff, Monica Guzman, discusses her book about fostering friction in a classroom. In the classroom, says Guzman, you are looking for truth, and you want students to search for it–together. This can create conflict, and a healthy classroom should expect and welcome this.