I don’t remember how the conversation started, exactly. It had something to do with the picture I chose to use in this post, although I’m not sure how the road turned from there to here. We were lying beside each other in the darkness, a momentary silence resting between us that seemed to be weighted [...]

The election is over and the progress our country has – and has not – made is evident in the numbers. We, as a nation, elected a black man. We, as voters, screamed our disappointment in the current administration. We organized and mobilized and donated our time. We got involved and became informed, and participated [...]