SNJ Journal Archive
Journal Vol. 9: “All Politics is Local” – is it really?
Friends and neighbors – Don’t cry over spilt Topo Chico. The air conditioner stopped cooling. The dryer stopped heating. Couldn’t hang the wet clothes outside because it started raining. And oh yes, my phone stopped...
Journal Vol. 8: The Anxiety of Uncertainty – Back to School (Sort of)
Friends and neighbors – Remember the excitement of getting a new lunchbox at the start of the school year? My 1976 Bicentennial aluminum lunchbox featured a cartoon of a guilty-looking kid standing next to the noticeably...
Journal Vol. 7: The Feeling is Virtual
Friends and neighbors – Work, visits to the doctor, ordering from a restaurant – so much has gone virtual. Hunger, however, has not. And right now more Texans than ever need help feeding their families. The North...
Journal Vol. 6: How things look from here
Friends and neighbors – SARS-CoV-2 is novel; racial inequity is not. Yet quite suddenly our experiences with both of these threats have altered how we will look at almost everything. The COVID-19 experience has...
Journal Vol. 5: Spring hope and pandemic politics
Friends and neighbors –Such an odd mix of airs – the beauty and hope of Springtime and the gloomy anxiousness of a viral pandemic. I hope the former are helping sustain you through the latter. The Spring sunshine isn’t the...
Journal Vol. 4: Daylight Saving Time
Friends and neighbors – Interview for the school newspaper, Fall 2019. First question: Student Reporter: “You’re best known for your opposition to Daylight Saving Time. What else are you interested in?” Me: “Wait – what?”...
