One Great Moment

“…you can’t write about this stuff and be boring. That would be a sin against God.”

—Award-winning novelist, feminist and activist Dorothy Allison
June 6, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

—Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson
April 25, 2018

“sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love”

—“Sweet Spring,” by e.e. cummings
April 18, 2018
Kari Howard

“The Sun specializes in short items unlikely to tax the mental capacities of its target audience: one-paragraph news articles, one-sentence paragraphs, one-word sentences.”

—Sarah Lyall, “The Anglo Files”
April 11, 2018
Kari Howard

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

—President Franklin D. Roosevelt
April 4, 2018
Kari Howard

“I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.”

–Ida B. Wells, pioneering investigative journalist
March 28, 2018
Kari Howard

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy.”

—Richard Yates, “Revolutionary Road."
March 21, 2018
Kari Howard

“If I were hauling 600 miles across the Arctic, I’d choose J. for stamina and his uncomplaining nature … “

—Leanne Shapton, The New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2016.
March 14, 2018
Julia Shipley

“The American people want someone to articulate their rage for them.”

—Paddy Chayefsky, “Network.”
March 7, 2018
Kari Howard

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

—Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Version
March 1, 2018
Roy Peter Clark