Up until yesterday, my thoughts around Graham Platner were pretty consistent. He had presented himself as a person who’d come from a checkered past and was now doing his best to change and be a force for good. The tattoo, the Reddit posts, and the texts all fit that explanation, and I saw no real […]
When the Trump administration announced its plans to change the way green cards are acquired, I immediately took notice. As the husband of a foreign-born spouse, this is a process I have direct experience with. Under this new approach, many people who are already in the U.S. temporarily and want to apply for a green
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Yesterday we had some real highs and lows, as a nation. The highlight for me was definitely the opportunity to watch us launch another moon mission. The amount of science, teamwork, and effort involved in making something like that happen is incredible, and I found it very inspiring. I’ve long loved pretty much anything Space
I’ve been purposefully avoiding writing many serious posts on the blog these days. It’s not because I haven’t been having serious thoughts. If anything, I’ve been having far more of them than in the past. I’m following the events unfolding in our country and our world with an ever increasing sense of real horror. What
I was lying in bed last night trying to figure out what to read next, and I ultimately settled on a new (to me) book by CS Lewis: The Abolition of Man. I’ve long admired Lewis for his ability to put difficult concepts into words that are accessible, so even though I didn’t really know
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