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Watching the Wheels

Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 by gar

I remember the morning after more clearly. My father had the whole month of December off for vacation, so he was home that day. He drove my sister and me to school. We went to a magnet school and normally rode a school bus. It was a four and a half mile drive. Dad had…

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Dallas

Posted on July 8, 2016July 9, 2016 by gar

I started writing a very different post the other night about the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. I wrote a draft about the need for police departments nationwide to better police themselves, to root out bad officers, and to hire better officers to begin with so that problems do not occur. And then…

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Homophobia Kills – The Lesson of the Pulse Massacre

Posted on June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 by gar

The other day, I listened to Kate Bush in the car on my commute to and from work, specifically tracks from The Whole Story. This album has a special place in my heart and history. I first heard it, and listened to it obsessively, when I came out 28 years ago. So I will forever…

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Time to put the NRA on Ignore

Posted on December 22, 2012 by gar

The day began in Sandy Hook, Connecticut with the tolling of bells.  While the nation paused for a moment of silence in observance of the one week anniversary of the mass shooting, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre prepared to take the stage.  The NRA had been conspicuously silent about the mass shooting, which left 28…

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I can’t look at his face

Posted on March 22, 2012 by gar

I can’t look at his face.  It’s too young and too fresh and too new.  I can’t look at his face.  It’s untested, unchallenged.  There are so many first lights he did not get to see, so many mountains he did not get to climb, or even envision, so many triumphs he did not get…

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