Infectious Disease & American History: “The Past Is Never Dead.”

COVID-19 continues to rage in many parts of the world, but where I live, the number of cases is in decline and vaccination rates are

A Birthday Present & A New Book

Six years ago, I dug up the grass under a magnolia tree in my front yard and planted flowers, focusing initially on snowdrops, hellebores, and

COVID-19: A Critical Crossroad for Racial Justice

We have reached another grim milestone in the United States: the pandemic has now claimed over 500,000 lives. In the first half of 2020, life

“Many Birds Literally Sleep With One Eye Open.”

I didn’t know that birds sleep with one eye open until I read What It’s Like To Be A Bird by David Allen Sibley. I

A Cookbook To Celebrate the 19th Amendment As Women Leave The Workforce

This has been quite a year. We’re still in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide and

Looking in the Mirror: Witchcraft, Election Fraud & the American Experience

In A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience, historian Emerson W. Baker writes: By European standards Salem was not even