In less than 24 hours as I write this, the polls will open up in Portland, Maine, and to say that I am nervous would be an understatement. I entered 2021 with two ideas kicking around in my head. One was to seriously consider running for a seat on our local Charter Commission. The other …
As I write this post, it’s been one year since George Floyd was killed, sparking all kinds of protests nationwide and bringing attention to racist police brutality, systemic racism, and the importance of recognizing how Black lives have been devalued. And those protests were on a scale we really hadn’t seen before. It was a …
The “benefit of the doubt” has always puzzled me. I can’t tell if it’s real. Is it a kindness we grant one another in absence of evidence? Or is it some kind of ceremonial gesture masking an obvious and opposing truth? Is it something we do out of generosity or cowardice? There is a clear …