Need Your Input on New Website Design

Friends! I need your help! I’m beginning the process of designing a new website that will become my primary personal web presence. On that page I’ll include links to the various other sites where I post content (this blog, Inheriting the Trade, Gather at...

Zuzu’s Petals

It’s a Wonderful Life. Really? Is it? There is so much evidence to the contrary. When the Tower Theater reopened in early 2004 I made sure that one of our Grand Opening presentations was a screening of the 1946 Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life,...

Thoughts on The Help

The movie of the best-selling novel The Help is now available for home viewing on video. (Spoiler alert! Key plot points are divulged through the web links in this post.) For anyone who missed it in the theater, I highly recommend you watch The Help. When the book...

The New Jim Crow

To understand one significant aspect of the legacy of slavery and its profound impact today, one needs to look no further than the “criminal justice” system in the United States. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A....