Can it happen here?

Go along on this pilgrimage by U.S. Muslim leaders in 2018 through the sites of Alabama's civil rights struggle and martyrdoms. In the...

A friend recently asked me for advice on how to get on board as a volunteer with the primary campaign of one of our aspiring Democratic pre...

Morty has been a little under the weather lately, so he's been hiding under his play structure. Happily he seems to be healing, returnin...

We have hung a new shower curtain. The top 4/5s of it is a quite detailed map of the boundaries and cities of the contemporary world. Lookin...

She could have said a lot of things about Trump's Wall. She could have said it would be ineffective, expensive, disastrous for border co...

As I walk around middling neighborhoods in San Francisco, the bumper stickers are still prominent; many, many, of us responded to the shock...

When this disconcerting item turned up in the news, I wondered whether the evangelicals who are trying to inject their faith into public s...

Neighbors and friends gathered on Friday night in the 'hood to protest U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Goodness knows, there's plent...

City librarians and architects explained the project to 30 or so interested but anxious neighbors and users on Saturday afternoon. (H/t to ...

The human's best friend is prominent among the street people along the neighborhood's sidewalks. They fit right in among the touri...

Young Brown. That headline requires a little explication. In 1982, two-term California Governor Jerry Brown ran for the U.S. Senate sea...

Still neutral on the Dem presidential hopefuls -- I need a shorthand nickname for this gaggle. Any suggestions? But if Elizabeth Warren c...

It gives one pause to have this turn up in the mail. 1969 was a long time ago and a great deal has happened since. Just perhaps, the count...

I am not ready. I understand why Dems who want to be president have begun coming out of the woodwork. They do have to test out their show...

Here's the view out the window in the lovely space in Vermont where we're staying for an undetermined time to assist a friend. It...

Dr. Victoria Sweet's publisher describes God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine as an account of ...

Jack is a mighty hunter, bringing home the disemboweled remnants of flying squirrels. But he's also not above taking advantage of a litt...

The good folks of the volunteer fire department never got around to giving their signage a seasonal upgrade. But fortunately there is a volu...

Californians for Justice organizes high school age youth to envision and fight for racial justice in their lives. The young people have ca...

When former President George H.W. Bush died in November, the glaring contrast between him and the current White House occupant made for fuls...