A few days ago, I was scrolling on Facebook and came across a horrific and racist caricature of a wonderful public servant, Deqa Dhalac. The caricature was being circulated by Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles, who decided to dig up an old video of now-state Rep. Dhalac when she became the first Somali-American mayor in …
As a writer, I deeply feel the idea that while words can evolve in their definitions, that they have meaning, and that such meaning should not be changed or corrupted consciously for no good reason. Remigration is one of those words. On the basic face of it, re-migration (and I use the hyphen to differentiate …
Everyone has something that they are scared of. For me, it’s big dogs and driving. Those are my two last remaining fears that for many sound silly, but they aren’t silly to me. When I was eight years old, I was almost attacked by a loose German Shepherd and that incident created a deep and …