After two years in the pandemic wilderness, it seemed that the administration, faculty, and students were ready to return to campus this semester, and reclaim a bit of normalcy. I say “a bit” because a mask mandate was in place until March 1st, and even after it was dropped, three-quarters…

When we were young, my brother Carleton and I found a unique way to satisfy both of our passions with one of our favorite playtime activities. His love of baseball and my love of dolls, two loves that would seem destined never to meet, found common ground when we discovered…

Comedy in a Post-Slap World Back in 2009, I was an entertainment reporter for an online LGBT news magazine. I mainly covered New York nightclubs, which included singers, musicians, producers, and comedians. That winter, I decided to cover the MAC Awards, an annual lovefest for New York’s cabaret community. It…

Lessons We Should Have Learned Years Ago “Tonight, I want to have an unpleasant talk with you . . . the energy crisis has not overburdened us, but it will if we do not act quickly . . . this is the greatest challenge that our country…

Coming to Terms With Regret Photo by Muhmed El-Bank on Unsplash A few years ago, I returned to a choir that had been such a big part of my life for an anniversary concert. I jumped into rehearsals and remained part of the large ensemble. …

Photo by Felicia Buitenwerf on Unsplash Schools need to be teaching kids to read, to write. They need to teach them science, history. We need more civics and understanding of the U.S. Constitution, what makes our country unique, all those basic stuff.” Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida As an educator myself…

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while and, given the current brouhaha over Spotify’s embrace of Joe Rogan and the subsequent exit of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell (and perhaps more by the time this is published) from the platform, my timing is probably not great. It seldom…

Like millions of others, I craved the long-awaited return of Ozark, the Netflix crime drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as parents, Marty and Wendy Byrde, who start a new life of money laundering in the Ozarks of Missouri, getting themselves involved in drug cartels, local crime families, and…

It appears that the new voting rights bill (Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act) is dead, given that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has given her impassioned but ridiculous speech saying she supports voting rights but can’t in good conscience override the Senate 60-vote rule for legislation. One would think…