history
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A love letter, a warning label, and a plea for the place I call home… This question hit me in the gut this morning: what would make Waynesville, Georgia a better place, what would make it instantly better… Not better in the shiny brochure way. And nothing would make it instantly better. Not better as…
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Telling you with NO REGRETS about Elie Wiesel’s “Night”….. My last read was Elie Wiesel’s Night, and I do not know that I have ever held such a small book that carried such a terrible weight. It is unassuming in the hand, barely more than a breath of pages, yet inside it lives a darkness…
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Rambling on about a time in history I would like to be there for…| If I could go back and visit one account of history, I would not choose a moment of celebration alone. I would choose a moment wrapped in grief, exhaustion, hope, and fear: the end of World War II and the gathering…
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A rambling look at the tempting fantasy of deleting one event from history… If history came with an undo button, I imagine we would all pretend to be responsible adults for about twelve seconds before elbowing each other out of the way. One person would try to erase a war. Another would erase a heartbreak.…
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If I could erase one trend from history, I would need a minute. Maybe more than a minute. I would need coffee, a quiet room, and probably a warning label that says, “Do not open this list unless you are ready to be mad.” There is so much to choose from: slavery, colonial violence, nuclear…
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Today’s prompt sent me on a trip down memory lane. It made me think deeply about the books I have read, the films I have watched, the recordings I have heard, and the newspaper stories that have stayed with me long after I first encountered them. It made me ask myself: what changed me? What…
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Rambling on about the Urgent Need for Legislative Reform in the U.S. Senate… The filibuster law in the United States Senate, once considered a safeguard for minority voices and a tool for deliberation, has become a barrier to meaningful progress. As a concerned citizen, I am compelled to reflect on the dire need to change…
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I was born in May of the year of our Lord, 1958… Yes, when I have to insert my birthday into a computer form, it is like spinning the wheel on The Price is Right. To be honest, I was really unaware of what was all the rage, going on, and in the news for…
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A Nostalgic Look Back Through Personal Memories and Cultural Shifts Some thoughts linger after reading the morning news, weaving their way into present musings. Today, unexpectedly, “As the World Turns”—an old soap opera—floated into my mind. My grandmother, Ma Reeves, a devoted Baptist with few indulgences, never missed an episode. The show became more than…
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Historical Events that I Remember and will Remember and Never Forget The things I remember about history in my lifetime are a hodgepodge of events that touched us all, most of them shocking us. The first vague memory I have of historical significance is when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was about 5 at…
