Apr 11Kentucky’s Choice: A New Deal or Doubling Down on the HateI attended a small meet and greet in Bardstown for U.S. Senatorial candidate Charles Booker the other day and while listening to his uplifting cry for unity from the hills of Eastern Kentucky to the West End of Louisville, I happened to glance out the window and saw what seems…Charles Booker3 min read
Feb 19Confessions of a Shitty Content ProducerI think I’ve been doing this writing thing all wrong from the beginning. When I started college back in 1984, I picked journalism for my major because it meant no math other than Theory of Statistics and a minimum number of required courses which allowed me to take the maximum…Writing5 min read
Aug 22, 2021United We Stand, Divided We FallReturning to the Bluegrass State after fifteen years in the desert For the first thirty five years of my life, my primary identity was as a Kentuckian, not an American. Other states shared some similarities but places like New York City were exotic foreign countries to me. …Mwc Reentry8 min read
Jan 17, 2021Jesus Loves Me. Not You.The first image I saw when I turned on the T.V. to find out the details of the coup attempt in Washington D.C. January 6th was one of the rioters waving a Christian flag. And I was outraged! …Trump5 min read
Oct 7, 2020THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHINDSeeing the reaction of some of the white people I grew up with to the Black Lives Matter movement has me thinking a lot about the beliefs I’ve left behind. It frustrates me that they can’t see how offensive some of their comments are while simultaneously claiming that they don’t…White Supremacy6 min read
Feb 13, 2020LINCOLN IN THE AGE OF TRUMPYou would assume someone would have let me know that the title of my prize-winning poem in the 1981 Lincoln Days Writing Contest should have been “If Lincoln were Running for President Today” before I stood up before the Women’s Club and read it. …3 min read
Jun 28, 2018THEY MEAN ITNot long after moving from Kentucky to Tucson in 2003, I went on a group camping trip to a few national parks. In a conversation with some of my fellow travelers I mentioned that I couldn’t understand why setting water out for immigrants who were dying by the hundreds in…Black Lives Matter2 min read
Jun 20, 2018WHITE FANTASIESI’m a middle-aged white woman from the South but my first thought when I woke up the morning after Donald Trump was elected president was, “I fucking hate white people”. And it wasn’t long after that I decided to finally satisfy my lifelong curiosity about my genetic origins by ordering…Black Lives Matter4 min read
Mar 14, 2017TAKING COUNTRY CULTURE BACK FROM THE TRUMP DISCIPLESTAKING COUNTRY CULTURE BACK FROM THE TRUMP DISCIPLES Since the Republican primary was decided and the vast majority of people I grew up with in rural Kentucky fell in line behind Trump, I’ve been thinking a lot about the culture I grew up in. I left the state 14 years…Religion13 min read