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Lessons from the animals; How to talk to racist, misogynist, homophobic folks

Dedicated to all those reactionaries who are on tilt as the world improves around them. There was quite a ruckus in the forest on a damp evening in July as the animals gathered to talk politics and share photos of their cats and their meals (sometimes the same photo.)  The usual bantering about the happenings […]

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The Very Best and the Very Worst of Our Small Town

(This column was published in the Petoskey News Review on Aug 25, 2015 There’s a scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” during which a town has accused a young woman of being a witch. One of King Arthur’s soon-to-be-knights attempts to sort out the mess through a series of questions aimed at proving […]

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