Comedian George Carlin said, “That’s all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn’t have so much stuff, you wouldn’t need a house. You could just walk around all the time.” And Dorothy Day, founder of … Continued
Orphan
podcast
Audio: March 2009 Blogcast
As you have most likely read on the 2050 blog, there has been some heavy anti-immigrant activity in Arizona lately. Many of the people caught in this war on immigrants are the regions Native (American) population. In light of this … Continued
Culture
Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
We don’t know our own history. I aced the mandatory eighth grade Illinois Civics class in 1960, by repeating what I had been taught about Abraham Lincoln. But I was not taught about Ida B. Wells, the African-American journalist who … Continued
Welcomed Home: Part 3 (finale)
The farm has always been my home. Even after the years of California sun has tanned my skin and bleached my long brown hair to sandy blond. Even after the years of going home to a house that was surrounded … Continued