Article Archive
2024
"New monster, same as the old monster""Having a conversation about guns is not an act of aggression"| |
2023
"Sinister backstory to Anderson County school board fiasco"
"Why can't Kentucky lawmakers discuss gun violence in good faith?"
"Kentucky lawmakers should heed lesson from Louisville mass shooting"
"This Ain't Gunsmoke""Rural Kentucky library director now carries a gun""Preacher who led anti-LGBTQ library protest appointed to library board""Kentucky legislature remains silent on gun safety laws""Why won’t Kentucky Republicans work to decrease firearm deaths?""We can end gun violence""GOP candidate for governor chooses guns over kids""When did the American gun become untouchable?""The AR-15 and our broken country.""Can’t find the word? Try ‘bigotry.""Local newspaper or Christian nationalist pamphlet?""You call that love?""KY’s proposed gun bills are bad. The process to pass them is even worse.""It’s the guns. This is how we live.""What’s so dangerous about books?In the room where politicians try to erase people."Kentucky government needs more transparency, not less”“Cringeworthy performances by Quarles and the KY legislature"
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2022
"Fancy Farm is dead”“Should 9 yr old girls be able to get an abortion?”“Preaching against LGBTQ in a small Kentucky town”"What the end of Roe v. Wade means for your daughters""Speaking truth to power has a stiff price in gun country""I think about guns" - from The Washington PostHow do you get people to care about voting? - from The Daily YonderI wanted to learn about my father. What did we talk about? Facebook. - from The Daily Yonder"Writing her own story in rural politics" - from The Daily Yonder"Recovery through help: Ex-addict uses his experience to save others" - from The Daily Yonder| |
2021
"I’m a progressive who just became a registered Republican in Kentucky. Here’s why""On the 22nd anniversary of Columbine, look at how little gun laws have changed"“How to combat vaccine hesitancy in rural America” - from The Washington Post
“When women feel hunted, America tells us to get over it.” - from The Washington Post
"My red state is still arguing over masks" - from The Washington Post"Visiting my unvaccinated family in Rush Limbaugh’s hometown" - from The Washington Post"False information is spreading even faster than the virus" - from The Washington Post"The hidden pandemic" - from Kentucky Monthly Magazine
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2020
“In my red state, people see masks as unmanly. That's Trump's fault.” - from The Washington Post"We need hard conversations to heal politically" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Is America ready for togetherness?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Better off than you were 4 years ago?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Why won’t we save ourselves?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Trump refused to go to John Lewis’s funeral" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Looking for new normal during pandemic" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Pandemic: Trump not ready for primetime" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
"Trump ignores soldiers" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
“The wonder of everything to come” - from The Lexington Herald-Leader
“The last word” - from The Anderson News
“The 2nd Amendment doesn’t need a safe space” - from The Anderson News
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2019
“Men who impregnate women don’t face abortion consequences in the new abortion laws” - from The Washington Post
“What happens when we stop letting Trump divide us?” - from The Washington Post
"Take away his damn phone" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Who have we become under the Trump presidency" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"On 9/11, Shakespeare, and remembering" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The toxic masculinity of Donald Trum" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Time to make history: give Trump his nobel prize" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Forget God. These days it's 'In Trump We Trust" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Love thy neighbor: reconciling church with hate mail from strangers" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Cruel irony whips compassionate conservatism" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Trump's reality-horror TV show" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"School Superintendent proves she just doesn't care" - from The Anderson News"Teach your children well: on that homecoming MAGA banner" - from The Anderson News"Why should we vote Trump in 2020?" - from The Anderson News"Free lunch ain't free, or What it's like to be a hungry kid" - from The Anderson News"On small town religion tolerance" - from The Anderson News"Our real national emergency" - from The Anderson News"The baby killers" - from The Anderson News"I've been thinking: where is the pro-life part of this pro-life presidency" - from The Anderson News"Trump MIA as commander in chief" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Oh concierge! Healthcare please!" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Fear and loathing in Trump country" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Plenty to fear from liars and boogeymen" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Homes for animals in need" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"No more excuses for disrespectful men" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Kavanaugh: what do women have to gain by coming forward?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The Joyless President" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"To be free and rich in America" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Trump policies, rhetoric not Christian" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Remember the Dixie Chicks?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader "Open season on journalists" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"On immigration: no such thing as other people's children" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"NFL players kneel for peace, but the president wants to fight" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The decimation of decency under Trump" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Kentucky dies while Mitch McConnell does what?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"When will Evangelicals accept that Trump is not righteous?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Sugarcoating racist attitudes" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"I don't want to hear about your love of guns" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Roe v. Wade is not about abortion, it's about power" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Why I left Facebook" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"What good are unskilled immigrants?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The gaps in our education" - from The Anderson News"It's not about the Bible" - from The Anderson News"Crazy socialists!" - from The Anderson News"Fear of drowning" - from The Anderson News""Are we great again yet?" - from The Anderson News"Strong Women" - from The Anderson News"Collateral Damage" - from The Anderson News"The Cancer of Columbine" - from The Anderson News"Are we great again yet?" - from The Anderson News"Mass shootings are about guns. Period." - from The Anderson News"All the president's (abusive) men" - from The Anderson News"The 'very stable genius' presidency" - from The Anderson News"We don't need Bible class or Trump's Wall" - from The Anderson News| |
2017
"Saying 'me too' isn't enough. Women have to stop excusing men." - from The Washington Post"Why we don't tell" - from The Manifest-Station""If only Hillary Clinton were president" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Yelling #FakeNews doesn't turn fantasy into reality" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Can't reach for future while clinging to the past" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Why do women take so long to tell?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Beyond deplorable" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Jemele Hill: One of two women calling out Trump on race" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Trump confuses nationalism with patriotism" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Who profits from our gun and manhood problems?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"DACA and our broken American Home" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"America First looks more like Trump First" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Charlottesville: staying quiet on racism no longer enough" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"White House liar-in-chief is no Boy Scout" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"If Trump offended you, it's somehow your fault" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"On the killing of Philando Castile" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Read Healthcare Fine Print" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"When did Trump start caring about Syria?" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The art of the grift" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Trumps play, while safety net burns" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"The CEO of Fantasy Land" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Lords of Chaos" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"We Were Warned, and Now We'll Pay" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Valuing Sanctity of Life Means Openness to Refugees" "When Women Marched, Trump Looked Small" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Kentucky's War on Women" - from The Lexington Herald-Leader"Season 1 of the Trump presidency comes to a close" - from The Anderson News"Whom I'm praying for" - from The Anderson News"Sound and Fury of our tweeter-in-chief" - from The Anderson News"8 years of suffering under Barack Obama" - from The Anderson News "The Carrier Lie" "Making Russia Great Again" - from The Anderson News"They don't call you Snowflake at War College" - from The Anderson News| |
2016
"The Choice" - from The Manifest-Station "A Stepson's Summer Visit" - from Motherwell Magazine "How To Be Divorced: A Stepdaughter's Wish List" - from The Manifest-Station "Why It's Wrong To Be A Texting (Only) Family" - from Grown and Flown "War College" - from War, Literature & the Arts "I Miss My Mother Most at Five O'Clock" - from The Manifest-Station"People You May Know" - from The Manifest-Station
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2015
"A Stepmother, Losing Her Marbles" - from The New York Times"The Real Mother" - from Brain,Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers"I Have Not Actively Worked. I Have Sat Quietly." - from Medium"It Never Happens The Way We Think It Will Happen" - from Medium "The Stand Alone Gift" - from The Manifest - Station "The Man in My House" - from The Manifest-Station "The Skinny on Mary" - from The Manifest-Station