Carole J. Garrison

Pulled From the Headlines

I get that other countries, especially those that we have helped cause to fail, become tyrannies, but how do you explain what is happening here in America? I can’t—can you?

Automatic doors and the Post Office: Letter to My Senator

I want to retain our postal service, and making access better for all citizens is one step in that direction.

The Unintended Consequences of Altruism

We are again trying to tie welfare to work … the last time the government did that without providing adequate day care the result was disastrous. Children left unattended, and worse abused by make-shift care-givers.

Honey Badger

On my visit, I met Honey Badger, a loggerhead juvenile who had suffered a fractured carapace (shell).

Mifepristone, Narcan, and the Politics of Hate in America 2023

Maybe the social malaise is as simple as the lack of moral leadership worldwide in politics and religion, education, and business. Whatever the reason(s), we are in deep doodoo, and only we can get ourselves out of it!

Bad Day at Black Rock

for them. So, I stay silent, hoping they will figure it out for themselves. My latest fortune cookie at the sushi restaurant said, “If you see disappointment as an opportunity, then all will be well.”

Holidays, Football and Hunting

The silly season has passed—starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Year’s celebrations. In many parts of the country, it is also the hunting season, and everywhere it is football playoff season. I can’t help but imagine what the combination of these three factors might produce. The turkey felt cold and dead to the touch;Continue reading “Holidays, Football and Hunting”

Is AI the End of Human Art and Intellectual Creativity?

AI, Robotics, Photoshop, Google—none of these genies are going back in the bottle.

Lessons Forgotten

It feels a lot like the sports boycott against people of color. Do we really want to repeat the hate of the past?

The Scariest Man in America

It wasn’t too long ago that I considered Newt Gingrich a candidate for the worst of the worst. A little while later, my more progressive college students considered Dick Cheney to be the most evil man in America—but he managed to raise Lynne Cheney, so he can’t be all bad. Then there were the TrumpContinue reading “The Scariest Man in America”