Yesterday, I committed a failure to fact check. A reader informs me that in yesterday’s post, I inaccurately stated, “Swastikas have defaced Jewish-affiliated buildings in Sarasota, Florida; in Esperance, New York; and Cincinnati, Ohio”. She’s absolutely correct that no “Jewish-affiliated” building was defaced in Esperance, NY in this incident. In her email, my reader told […]
Local Love Brigade Counters Hate with Love
It’s Valentine’s Day, and I’ve joined the Local Love Brigade to help counter hate with love. The Local Love Brigade – Vermont maintains a list of people who’ve been victimized by hate crimes, a list that’s been growing since the election of Donald Trump. In the week following the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center […]
Three Actions I’m Taking
Three Actions I Am Taking As promised, here’s more information about the three actions I’m taking to push back against the hard right turn of our national government that has emboldened hate-motivated speech and actions around the country. 1. Expanding my involvement with Restorative Practices. I’ve been a volunteer in Vermont’s Restorative Justice System for […]
Coordination and Subordination
Coordination and Subordination In graduate school, I had a professor who said, “The hardest word in the English language to use properly is the conjunction ‘and’,” and “The key to success is subordination.” Coordination I just used the coordinating conjunction ‘and’ in the sentence above to join the two quotations, which are independent clauses. A […]
Chop Wood, Carry Water
I’m grateful for a reader’s comment about Axes to Grind, reminding me that one way to cope with post-election anxiety is to “chop wood, carry water.” In fact, that’s what I’ve been doing since about three in the morning of November ninth, when it became apparent that Donald Trump had won the election, until January […]
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