The sun had turned the grass a fluorescent shade of green. My wife’s tulips glowed ivory and red and yellow. Our next-door neighbor was pushing her toddler in his tree swing. A Saturday as lovely [...]
Yes, this really happened. And yes, there’s a lesson in here about dialogue. According to reporter Scott Waldman of The Times Union, a number of Albany High School students recently went to English class and [...]
Every now and then I run across an article so compelling that I have to share it with you. This past week, there were two. Both speak to the rich, substantive dialogue we could—and, I [...]
Dialogue, especially on social and political issues, benefits greatly from a clear (and agreed-upon) grasp of the facts. But ferreting out honest-to-goodness facts can be wickedly tricky. Allow me, in the spirit of making a [...]
Bertie Simmons opened her remarks by saying, “If we can’t imagine what civility looks like, we can’t do civility.” She then showed us what it looks like. Simmons was a panelist at last week’s Citizens’ [...]