Essays How to Be an American Now I am writing this on Inauguration Day 2021 from my kitchen table in Mexico. It is an odd thing to watch the dawn of a new Kerra Bolton Posted on January 30, 2021
Culture National Day of Mourning 2020 In 1970, Massachusetts put on a celebration commemorating the sesquarcentennial anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing at Jessi-James Grey Posted on November 25, 2020
Culture The Complicated and Still Relevant History of Citizenship and Constitution Day President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, in 1940, a law declaring the third Sunday in May “I Am an American Day.” The Jessi-James Grey Posted on September 17, 2020
Connection It’s Been Almost 20 Years – A Prayer of Remembrance “Remembrance begins with deep, personal identification. It begins with remembering the affliction of [others], and marking Emmie Arnold Posted on September 11, 2020
Books, Quotes 12 Quotes from David Sedaris The first David Sedaris book I read was Me Talk Pretty One Day. The chapter in which he and his fellow language students Salongo Wendland Posted on December 25, 2017