What If It Were You?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another. What if you were working on a job you loved and had been doing for many years, and one day a powerful group of people decided to tell a lie about you […]

Orange Zest PPE

It doesn’t matter if it’s morning, afternoon, or evening. It doesn’t matter if it’s CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. It doesn’t matter if it’s live, pre-recorded, or old news. Every single time I listen to former President Trump for more than two minutes I get an urge for the effervescent, nose-tickling, clean relief of Alka-Seltzer…preferably orange […]

Loving America

There is no place like home…for me that is America. I’ve traveled and seen many places but at the end of the day I love to be on American soil. I’ve never felt safer or more grounded anywhere else and I’ve been to a few places in my time. Years ago, when I was in […]

Helping Young Americans Remember History

So many young people do not remember the Civil Rights Movement and the wonder and bravery of the young people who changed America. Even I had forgotten how young Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X, John Lewis and many others were when they were at the height of the movement…which never stopped by the way […]

Trump Wants Americans to Be Complicit

Trump has always telegraphed who he is…either blatantly with his words or through other means. He wants us to know upfront because he doesn’t want anyone to later claim they didn’t know. From day one we knew Trump was shifty in his business practices. People were hollering from the rooftops that he had not paid […]