A genuine privilege to have two of my poems featured in the Winter 2025 edition of St. Petersburg's own Neptune Poetry. I'm in extraordinary company, and am immensely grateful to publisher Denzel Johnson-Green for including me, and for a few... Continue Reading →
I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on and published over at Substack. It's called "For Immediate Release: Essays and Lessons From 30 Years in Politics and Government."
There is no reason in the world for a white person (and particularly a white man) to be anything less than ebullient about the state of affairs in today's America. Donald Trump, a man who has garnered the favor of a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, is President of the United States. The Congress is controlled by Republicans, and its leaders seem hell-bent on rolling back the polices of the last Democratic administration. Republicans also control 32 state legislatures, 33 governors.
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