My salads are kind of like my soups: Whatever. If I call it a pea salad, though, chances are good that it has peas in it. This one is also called Seven-Layer Salad sometimes, except that I don’t always have seven layers, so mine is…

My Deal Me In deck turned up hearts, which means I got to read one of Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt’s Drabbles (stories of exactly 100 words). Alicia is the author of one of my favorite books of all time, Pride’s Children: Purgatory. It’s the first in…

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…