I also did not really want to write about it, I just wanted to drink wine and complain to Brandon, so that is what I did.
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A Southern thing: in the space between spring and summer, while the heat creeps closer and it rains all the time, the magnolia trees start their show.
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Your local newspaper, it turns out, is vitally connected to the health of your community, in more ways than you might think.
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The public discourse is exhausting and nasty from every side, and it seems sometimes like nothing in the world is simple and objective. It was nice, for a night, to be reminded that actually, a lot of things are.
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The county I cover voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, but nearly a third of precincts here also voted for Trump. Of those, not a single one voted for him by a margin of less than 51 percent. In most cases, the margin of victory was much higher.
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I lived in New York for two years in my early 20s, during a time of tumult and heartbreak when I was, in retrospect, so very young, so very naive, and so very very fortunate.
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There was a big ol' explosion in downtown Greensboro last night.
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