had no idea who Sydney Sweeney was before her American Eagle jeans ad grabbed the headlines recently.

For a long time, well into my fifties, I looked at the world through the lens of a thirtysomething, defiant, ever believing in my invincibility.

For a long time, well into my fifties, I looked at the world through the lens of a thirtysomething, defiant, ever believing in my invincibility.

When you say "a good life", that implies a fulfilling, meaningful existence, and existence, though punctuated with failure, disappointment, and loss, yet you are still at peace; still at rest; still hopeful.

Barbadine was a fruit I knew little about until my father constructed an abour on which the vine could grow.

I believe that as human beings, our bodies find cold an alien intrusion; heat or warm weather, seems to me anyway, a more natural state to be in.

The likes of Jason Whitlock, Candace Owens, et al, in their frantic effort to maintain the authenticity of their conservative bona fides, must always be the loudest and harshest to reprimand their melanated kin.

Trump's divisive rhetoric laid bare deep ideological fissures within America society but he was no lone marauder here-no, not at all. Complicit in the ravaging of this great nation's politics was his own Republican Party...

"We on the left, have abandoned the tenets of critical inquiry and instead have decided to now worship at the altars of social justice and right-speak. So preoccupied with being politically correct, we have turned our backs on the very source of our legitimacy-the truth."

" Perhaps the most horrific aspect of lynching was the decidedly public nature of it. Throngs of eager individuals gathered not only to celebrate the hangings; but also the mutilation, decapitation and desecration as well."