Chad Aaron Hall

The key here is accepting that everyone is deluded in their own unique way. You, me, all of us.

Then I sit there and muse about what to write that day . Such moments are pure bliss . To tell the truth , I have never found writing painful . Neither ( thankfully ) have I ever found myself unable to write . What’s the point of writing , anyway , if you’re not enjoying it ? I can’t get my head around the idea of “the suffering writer . ”... See more

While many Black, Latino and Asian parents felt similarly about wanting their kids back in the classroom, their voices were swept under the rug as union representatives continually claimed only “rich white parents” wanted schools reopened. The irony of the accusations of racism launched mostly at white moms, but also occasionally at parents of... See more

The point I’m trying to emphasize here is that while this might seem outright luxurious to us today, there was a time in our city’s history, which lasted many, many decades, when we could afford this. We could afford to pay staff to make even our small neighborhood parks breathtakingly beautiful.

And we continued to afford it through a World War, a... See more