By Jan Warrington Early on the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated president, I began to fret about the sign I was going to carry at the Women’s March. The sign, designed and made by a friend’s son, read in bold letters: “YUGE MISTAKE.” At the last minute I realized I wanted to convey a […]

By Jan Warrington and Frank Starr Happy Saturday, and happy first day of August. The summer is beginning to wind down, and each day brings us closer to November 3, 2020, the day we have been yearning for since November 8, 2016. Frank and I have one urgent message for you today: Please, please get […]

Will the GOP ever learn that decency triumphs? By Jan Warrington A hot and humid Sunday, and I’m stewing over the definition of the word “accost,” over non-apologies, over the notion of cheap forgiveness, and — after the incident at the Capitol last Monday between Rep. Ted Yoho and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the GOP’s […]

The events we’re experiencing will be among the most critical of our lives. Shall we treat them with indifference or honor them in memory? By Jan Warrington A tweet from Donald Trump a few weeks ago didn’t get anywhere near the attention that I think it deserved. I’ve been stewing over it ever since. Here […]

Jan has done it again. She was moved by this letter, as was I. But it’s so much more than a son’s letter about his father. Jan sees it in the wider context. By Jan Warrington I didn’t cry until I read Wynton Marsalis’s love letter to his father Ellis, the great jazz pianist, who […]

Jan has perfectly captured what I–and maybe you–have been feeling since COVID-19 became a pandemic.  By Jan Warrington Let’s not mince words here: We are slowly drowning in a sea of bullshit, a sea of crazy coming from a cowardly administration that is trying desperately to minimize our awareness of the full impact of the […]

Josef Stalin ordered his leading military strategist, Gen. Iona Yakir, shot at dawn on June 12, 1937, after a one-day trial for anti-Soviet activity and espionage. Yakir’s appeal of his sentence went unread; Stalin had labeled him a “rascal and prostitute.” But killing him wasn’t enough. Yakir’s younger brother Moris also was shot.  If Gen. […]

By Jan Warrington It’s been a rainy Saturday morning, so please indulge my goofiness. Thanks for reading, as always. Once upon a time, in what once was called the Land of Hope for Mankind, 100 princes and princesses traveled from all over the country to a shining city. They went there to represent their fellow […]

We’re lucky today to have another blog post written by my wife. I think you’ll love this piece as much as I do and that she’ll contribute more often. She gives us hope when we need it.   By Jan Warrington God gave us memory, the author J. M. Barrie once wrote, so that we […]

By Jan Warrington For Christmas 2017, my sister gave my husband and me a dish towel with a drawing of a dog seated behind a desk, and not just in any office, but the Oval Office. (We loved it!) The towel reads: “My dog would make a better president.” So true, several friends said after […]