A regular family reunion, but one that revealed a quiet act of moral courage.

My new Substack is essentially in praise of asking questions.

Great Gods! I mean that facetiously. Here's my new Substack, which - as it turns out - will be a kind of prequel to the next one, which will be out soon.

When White America Despised Dr. King

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican

The Language of Hate Dogs seek connection and approval; humans seem drawn instead to establishing dominance, to finding someone beneath us. It’s a painful irony that we cherish in animals the very generosity of spirit we withhold from each other.

Kyiv in Their Blood Have you gotten your DNA analyzed? Good. Did anything surprise you?

“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” - Modern political proverb (origin unknown, popularized in the 1990s)

In my new Substack I simply wanted to memorialize my immigration journey to America 70 years ago. In a kind of stream-of-consciousness way, my thoughts insisted on having their way, and where I ended up at the end wasn't very pretty. Tell me what you think. olgabourlin.substack.com/p/october-3-...

Amelia Earhart was the 1st woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean before disappearing. And Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files.

Dr. Quintard Taylor (1948-2025): Beyond the Classroom Walls I was privileged and honored to know Dr. Taylor, even in my small way. I am so saddened by his passing — his was a life remarkably well lived.

My latest Substack was inspired by all those "fake" vs. "real" Christian postings I know you've seen of late, too. Here's my overview of the situation.

Threatening people with eternal torture is not piety; it is cruelty pretending to be morality.

Maybe It's Not a Cult What do you think? Cult? Not a cult? My latest Substack written from my skeptical viewpoint.

Read my new Substack: When Violence Tests Us

Clever.

I started noticing a disturbing pattern: women slapping men ... often for the flimsiest of reasons ... it even seemed men would be slapped simply for being men and for what they might have been thinking. How could violence like that even be considered funny, or cute, or a prelude to... a kiss?

Dr. Paul Offit has called the health secretary a “dangerous man” and an “agent of chaos in the vaccination world.”

White American households hold 10 times more wealth than Black American households as of 2021, a stark disparity that reflects centuries of systemic barriers and has actually been widening in recent years rather than closing. www.census.gov/library/stor...

The U.S. has a shortage of voters who are not racist — who want to create a society where people aren’t divided into “first-class” and “second-class” citizens.

This is not about Halloween, but about how stories may enlighten us in unexpected ways.