I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…
“It is French”
First Part “Schtick”— from the Yiddish: A comic theme or gimmick, first introduced on stage by Mark Twain The story goes that Mark Twain had invested heavily into the publishing of Ulysses S Grant’s autobiography, but which had been victimized…