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Gimme Shelter
A Primer on Housing America A friend recently asked me how we create affordable housing in the United States. It seemed a simple query. Yet, like so many questions, the deeper I delved, the more complex and frustrating it became. … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, Fair Housing Act, public housing, zoning, zoning reform
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History as Fact—and as Gap
Within a few moments of Clint Smith’s recent Harvard Radcliffe Institute Book Talk about How the Word is Passed, I was fully won over by the man and his message. Mr. Smith is a 33-year-old poet and scholar drenched in … Continue reading
Hope is a Discipline
“Hope is not an emotion…hope is not optimism.” – Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us “Optimism is a state of mind in which you are hopeful that things will turn out well.” – William J. Knaus, … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Haiti, Hope, Hope is a Discipline, Mariame Kaba
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One Night in Tallahassee
I embrace Universal Basic Income and envision the end of work as we know it “Look at you; look at what you’re doing. You’re engaged, you’re learning, you’re sharing. I think that’s useful. We don’t call it work because you’re … Continue reading
Nobody Wants to Work Anymore…a Tale of Three Cities’ Trash
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” I encounter the phrase every day. From retiree’s impatient for the waitress to take their order. From people complaining insufferable wait times to be connected to a customer service rep. In media reports of worker … Continue reading
Tower of e-Babel
Five thousand years ago, give or take a few centuries, the people of the earth, speaking in unified tongue, got together and decided to build a tower to reach the heavens (Genesis 11:1-9). God, ever wary of humans getting uppity, … Continue reading
Education…huh…yeah…What is it Good For?
When Edwin Starr released his anti-anthem “War (What is it Good For?)” in 1970, the number of high school graduates in the United States heading off to college was near peak, just north of 50%. The percentage had been growing … Continue reading
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Tagged college education, culture wars, education, Edwin Starr, F Scott Fitzgerald, GI Bill, Henry Adams, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan
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Comrades! Asexuals of the World! Unite!
I recently copy-edited a Guest Opinion essay by Michele Kirichanskaya for the upcoming issue of GL&R (Gay & Lesbian Review). “How Asexuals Got Organized.” I proof read the article. Made a few grammatical notations. Checked out the website for Asexual … Continue reading
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Tagged asexual, Gay & Lesbian Review, LGBTQIA+, Michele Kirichanskaya, sexual identity
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Massachusetts’ Bold Opportunity: Abolish Women’s Prison
Massachusetts S. 2030, a bill to place a moratorium on all prison construction for five years while we evaluate alternatives to our carceral system, is accepting written testimony through August 4. Please consider offering your testimony (link). This post is … Continue reading
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Tagged abolish women's prisons, HDR, MCI Framingham, prison abolition, women's prison
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The High Price of Elite Housing
One hundred thirty years ago, in 1891, Mr. A.E. Parker built a house at 60 Wicklow Street in Cambridge. A 2-1/2 story wood frame building that he shared with his wife. The building first appears in the 1894 Bromley Atlas, … Continue reading
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