injustice

If my children grow up to be average Americans I’ll have failed them as a parent.

If they spend four hours a day watching other people live on a television screen.  If they’re bored.

If they go to school to get a job so their kids can go to school so they can get a job so their kids can go to school...If they’re without purpose.

About four years ago I was reading the paper in a small town in Minnesota. I read an article by Congressman Mark Kennedy entitled: “The Great Experiment” which discussed the sacrifices many soldiers had made to make this country what it is today. I felt the need to reply in this letter to the editor that you see below.

No Justice, No Peace*

When in Boston, there are a few things you must do, and on that list is catching a Red Sox game at Fenway Park.

A note from Karim in follow-up from last week’s post. (Thanks, Jane)

I’m sorry I haven’t been able to blog much from the Dominican Republic and I won’t be able to blog anything else after this for a day or so.  This is not a blogging trip.  It was a trip taken to shoot three small films telling the stories of sponsored children to music festival audiences.  Choosing which stories to tell, interviewing enough people to put the story together, sh

State Rep. Rob Briley (D-Nashville) is proving, again, why he needs to step down from the State Legislature.