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Citizenship Did you take a Civics class in high school? I did.* We learned the nuts and bolts of how our democracy works (or is supposed to) based on the Constitution:** three separate branches—legislative , executive, judicial—kept co-equal by checks and balances. Even without a specific high school (or college) course, most of us have…
Don’t Just Sit There Scrolling: Do Something!
Good grief, I don’t want to be writing about Donald Trump. I have so many other things I want to do with my days. I have a book I’m trying to get published. I have bins and bins of papers I dragged from Milton, Massachusetts, to Manhattan Beach, California, ten years ago. These are things…
Ever wonder how things got to be the way they are in the “land of the free home of the brave?” Certainly, the America I’ve experienced as an adult is markedly different from the one I learned about in school. Ideals collide with reality And yet the idealized schoolgirl concept of The United States remains…