Post-Election Ponderings & Reflections

It’s a week after Election Day and one of the closest races we’ve seen with the highest voter turn out on record. Biden has been declared as the projected winner and President-Elect. But in reflecting and thinking about the 2016 and the 2020 Presidential Election I have some ponderings and want to “put them down

SCOTUS Hearing Ponderings

Most, if not all, of America is paying attention to the confirmation hearing of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett. As expected we are witnessing the politics, election, and partisan divide play out on our screens. My social media pages are full of conversations about the hearing. With the wide variety of people in my life

Post Debate Unanswered Ponderings

So Tuesday night was the first 2020 Presidential Debate with President Donald J. Trump and Former Vice President Joe Biden.  Summary: So naturally, post debate has been a whirl wind of conversations, memes, arguments and finger pointing. Every hour or so there’s a new point made or conversation started and my head is overflowing with

Strength in Uncertainty

There’s so much going on in the world that scares me: President-Elect Trump and his daily Cabinet appointments and transition into the White House Ohio State University stabbing A ramp up of hate speech and leaders of anti-LGBT and white supremacy There’s so much going on in my life that I’m working through: Struggling to

Ponderings

There’s something rubbing me the wrong way with the tone of our field lately. I honestly can’t put my finger on it, but my gut has an unsettling feeling. Perhaps it’s the exclusiveness of our conversations. It could conceivably be an unbalance of our understanding our field as a whole. Maybe it’s the way we treat each other on social