Team Gray!

I heard my father say, “You better call him Dr. when you call him…”, referring to his former colleague. I silently finished the sentence, “because he sacrificed his family for that degree.” Harsh, I know. But in all the talk about how important education is, what are we really talking about? Advanced degrees that we [...]

A child peruses her activity books. She settles on a very used pair of Kid Concoction books. She pulls out a sheet of notebook paper and lists all the activities she’d like to do. She casually asks her mother if she can make a snow globe. She and her siblings gather the materials and make [...]

The last time I set out to tell my story of political transformation, I got caught up in blackness. Tonight I will stick to definitions. It is difficult to define these two political extremes, because it’s so tempting to be biased. I think the differences come down to different belief systems, different premises. I will [...]