Dear Senator Higdon, This is my first time writing to your office because I’m a pro-choice Democrat and I’ve never been given any indication that you, or anyone else who represents me in the Kentucky Legislature, gives a damn what I think. …

I was watching the 2022 election preview on Kentucky Educational Television when a former legislator tried to downplay the extremist nature of the ballot amendment explicitly stating that there was no right to an abortion in the state constitution by saying that even if it passed Democrats could still gain…

I’ve lost count of the number of times I thought finally, this will be the thing that will snap my Trump-supporting friends and extended family back to reality. But it never happens. And after the raid on Mar-A-Lago last week, I’m beginning to lose hope that it ever will. They…

“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3 As someone who grew up Southern Baptist in rural Kentucky, I can assure you that there are…

I 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…

I 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…

Returning 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. …

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! …

Seeing 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…