culture – Carole J. Garrison

The Loss of Trust

What’s different? I no longer trust my country.

The College Application

In the end, does anyone actually read these essays?

Lessons Learned in the Time of Covid

Lesson two: Never, ever assume that someone is vaccinated.

Modeling Effective Diversity

Never mind the next few generations because, at this rate, we won’t make it to the 22nd century.

Free Choice in the Time of Covid

Lesson for the day: None of us has free choice, and many of us have no choice.

Empathy in the Time of Covid-19

Like Alice, I’ve lost my “muchiness,” and I need to get it back.

Police Reform

Let us give police clear and unambiguous guidelines while relieving them of tasks that we should assign to ourselves and our social institutions.

Clogged Ears and Trump Madness

“Peace on earth, good will towards men, and spare us from the tyrants of this world.”

There’s a Tesla in the Garage: And a Madman in the White House

Too far out … a crazy conspiracy theory. Maybe

The Cycle of Life

The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is quoted as saying, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” which translates as, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.”