In a year of challenges and division, there are two points we can agree on— we’re all against covid and we all love chocolate. These grown-up Vote Blue Brownies are chocolaty and fudgy and the perfect treat for yourself after leaving the polling place. Blame the upcoming election. My friend Marc and I were talking…
Calling Forth Morning in America
I originally wrote this Huffington Post piece on the eve of the 2016 election, urging everyone to vote. I even embedded video of Maya Angelou from 1993, reciting her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. It all seems almost quaint now, with a pandemic, systemic racism called out at last,…