Recently, a woman contacted Columbia Community Care needing assistance; she was living out of her car in Harper's Choice Village in Columbia, but it was in need of repair and a jump start. She had lost her job earlier in the pandemic, and she now had a new job, but she needed her car repaired so that she could drive to work. The woman, a veteran of the U.S. Army, updated the CCC Facebook group some time later and thanked them for their support and helping her get into a shelter.
There's a ...
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Common Sense
As I write this, I am at the end of a quarantine resulting from a member of my household needing to get tested for COVID-19 due to symptoms similar to a cold. The test came back negative, which is an immense relief. As I watch the COVID-19 statistics for Maryland and the U.S. getting worse by the day, I know that this probably won't be the last time my family will go through this. As Ned Stark's famous line from Game of Thrones goes, "winter is coming."
Common sense told us that this was ...
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The SMOB vs. the Mob
This week, the Howard County Board of Education held a work session to discuss hybrid learning models for the second semester of the 2020-2021 school year. After a long and arduous discussion that illustrates the quagmire that is making education decisions in a pandemic that is worsening by the day, the board voted to maintain a virtual learning model in the third quarter of the school year with the option to bring small groups into school buildings for in-person learning. Five board members ...
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Hall of Shame – November 12, 2020
COVID-19 is worsening throughout the U.S. as we approach a quarter of a million dead from the virus. In Maryland, the metrics have returned to concerning levels, and Governor Larry Hogan and some local jurisdictions have announced new restrictions to reverse the disquieting trend.
Given these circumstances, I found this post from Reopen Howard County yesterday to be... well, read it and choose your own adjective.
Wow.
I won’t dismiss the very real concerns of parents whose kids are ha...
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Open Letter to White Women
White women, let's have a chat.
Earlier this week, I wrote Dear White Women out of frustration with the many white women whose ignorance of the Black American experience gave them permission to cast a vote to re-elect a racist like Donald Trump.
Since writing that piece, the country has been hanging on tenterhooks waiting for election results. What's become clear in that time is that Black Americans got out the vote to defeat Donald Trump. Full stop. And the Twitter commentary of bri...
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