“I once wanted to be a king who wrote history. Now I realise only kings write history,’ Simnel says. ‘Is anything true written anymore?” ― Jo Harkin, The Pretender Election Day is fast approaching. That means Tennessee will soon… Read More ›
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.” ― Elizabeth Strout, Abide With Me … Read More ›
“The problem isn’t who is in charge. It’s what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of… Read More ›
“Everything will be alright in the end, so if it is not alright, it is not the end.” — Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Teaching is a weird profession. It is one of the few professions where the… Read More ›
“Whatever happens to human beings trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.” ― Sissela Bok Something is going on over on Bransford Avenue. Hard to figure out exactly what it is. But something is going on. The rumblings… Read More ›
“Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.” ― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Twenty-five years ago, the world changed. People older than me remember exactly where they were when JFK was… Read More ›
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.” — Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies Forgive us if we are a little sad here in Tennessee. We lost a shining light this week when Dolly Parton departed… Read More ›
“The problem is that progress stopped making sense. More and more of us looked up one day and realized that the emperor had no clothes.” ― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility… Read More ›
“But I don’t want to be Godly. I just want to be good.” ― Caradog Prichard, One Moonlit Night I’ve got a couple of pet peeves, which probably won’t surprise anybody who has been reading me for more than… Read More ›
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability… Read More ›
