DEI made me use Calibri! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Moi is beautiful in every way. Words can’t bring moi down.

If #Mamdani wins NYC I will 100% move — out of Florida to NYC.

My employer said to take its name off our social media profiles, so I changed mine to “Old lady academic with no more Fs left to give, short on filters and patience.”

"The lesson here is not about the 'final solution' but how things start." A reflection by me and @tbhallock.bsky.social from our time in Germany, as we head back to Florida. www.cltampa.com/news/at-ever...

Frances McDormand, early 2000s, in a ladies’ room. Shocked to see her, I blurted out, I love you! She said, well that’s not the strangest thing someone’s said to me in the bathroom. Lol.

Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning. Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Some aspects of living in Florida are truly good. Case in point: @cltampabay.bsky.social and Eric Vaughan

"Men will not be allowed in women's spaces"? Does that mean they'll keep their mitts out of our uteruses?

We're fine in Florida. Just fine. Yes, I'm lying. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

News from Florida higher ed. This is not a joke, y'all.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

So much important work needs doing in the world and changing the Gulf’s name is someone’s priority

It is literally my job and my honor to teach people to ask hard questions, engage in difficult conversations, challenge status quo thinking, and recognize other people’s dignity and agency. I will NEVER obey laws like this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Who needs Thought Police when you can eliminate thought? 2025 is the new 1984.

In keeping with my New Year's resolution, I'm reading more poetry and theology. Also starting off the day with an hour of walking, listening to the liberation theology podcast with David Inczauskis, SJ. Highly recommended. liberationtheology.org/books-videos...

Because the Tuskegee Airmen have been in the news, I wanted to share this powerful poem by Marilyn Nelson: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54636/...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

My hometown, Birmingham, early 70s. One of the 1st to test the Clean Air Act. Those regulations are important.

The problem is that Costco is in the burbs, so I have to drive 30 mins one way. Also don’t you have to buy a membership? And don’t they sell in bulk? Who has room to store all that stuff? And Aldi here is gross, with limited options so I still wind up buying from the devil, Publix.

Having this problem too. We’re talking English majors who don’t read books.

Worth your attention today www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...

These Executive Orders and freezes in the NIH and Civil Rights division are like Musk’s twitter strategy applied to government. Moving fast and breaking things to shift everything right quickly. Destroying goverment services to own the libs, even if your own people are collateral damage.

Yes: distract you, keep you off balance, make you suspicious, keep you afraid. Resist!

And I stand with them.

Folks saying not a N@zi salute are the same ones saying the Confederate flag means heritage not hate

The gospel according to Saint Mariann

And this is only one reason I attend an Episcopal church not the Baptist one where I was raised (+ traumatized).

Beecher has some excellent civil rights movement poems

Re: "current events." This old lady has no time for hate. But she will make time to resist.

Following his death in 2015, Alice Walker wrote this poem in memory of Julian Bond. Today, on what would have been his 85th birthday, I post it here. alicewalkersgarden.com/2015/08/juli...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America: “We are going to call the United States Mexican America; it sounds nice.”

I hope I can be something useful like a butcher knife

Remembering better days www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSR...

To mark the watchful time between Jan. 6 and Jan. 20 this year, I’m rereading 1984.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

An important step. A better step: universal health care.

"Florida Snow," from the Poets.org Poem-a-Day series poets.org/poem/florida...

My resolution in this new year is reading more poetry and liberation theology (rather than dieting, food for the spirit). Anyways, here’s a podcast I’m listening to on morning walks (strength training for the work ahead). www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A poem about civil rights movement shero Fannie Lou Hamer, strength, courage, and love, for anyone who needs it today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48763/...

Pell grants made college possible for me, then Reagan made big cuts. And that is the story of why I worked full time in college and took nearly six years to graduate.

Not sure how much press this story is getting outside of Tampa Bay, but worth the attention for those interested in civil and human rights + history: www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...

So far so good on creating an AI-deterring final assignment: asking students to gather their semester's in-class work and write a reflective essay showing how they met/did not meet learning outcomes. What I'm getting is smart and thoughtful. Hopefully the trend continues!

There’s a joke about this where the punch line is a southern lady saying “ain’t that nice.”

The conference was great and these photos are lovely

He shamed me once for not giving a guy $$, saying “You have plenty. Why are you afraid of someone who has nothing?”

Our son, adopted at 8, now 23, has often experienced being unhoused. He knows most of people near our neighborhood in similar straits. Makes a huge difference to know their names and stories, to look them in the eyes and say hello.

Well it sure isn’t from the painting captioned “Freedom from Fear.”

Sure seems like a lot of people wake up each day wondering "how am I going to put myself on the wrong side of history?"