This week I learned a new word. The average person uses only 1000 words or so to convey meaning in daily speech. So I’m considering it...

Was January 6, 2021, an attempted insurrection? A riot? A protest that got out of hand? Whatever we opt to call it, that day marked a...

A March 2016 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that Americans are 25x more likely to die from gun homicide than people in...

I remember Umpqua. I remember what the President said afterwards. I remember East End Middle and Spanaway Junior High and Portland...

I remember September 11, 2001. I remember it well. It was a Tuesday morning, still hurricane season in South Florida, where only a year...

When I type quickly, as I’ve been doing today, I sometimes write “Untied States of America,” rather than United States of America, and...

There has been much outcry in the past few days over the shocking death of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant, shot and killed last week in...

I’m no epidemiologist. What little I know about public health precautions I’ve learned from those who know a lot more than me (which...

If I had been asked a few years ago to give a graduation speech, I would have filled it with pithy wisdom and inspiring quotations,...

“In the Flo: Finding Light in the New Dark Ages,” presented at "SoFloMind: Reclaiming Hope and Change," 2020 Florida Collegiate Honors...

Three hours ago a group of people in Melbourne, Australia, took part in a vigil for the victims of yesterday's shootings in Christchurch,...

I would be ever so slightly more comforted about the general state of awfulness in America if, after the racist slayings, attempted mail...

Sept. 11, 2001, awakened me to the awfulness possible in this world. Working at home, I watched the terror attacks unfold on live TV. ...

*A version of this essay was published in The Journal of Hate Studies 13 n 1 (2016). If one pays attention to the old Confederate battle...