August 25, 2019 is the 400th anniversary of the first landing of enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America. The National Park Service is commemorating the day, and invites anyone else who wants to to participate in ringing one or more bells for four minutes, one minute…
One of the reasons I write speculative fiction is to encourage people to think about–to feel about–concepts and situations they wouldn’t or couldn’t bear to think and feel about more immediately. In case you aren’t aware of it, people all over the world are being…
