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Losing My Buttons

It hangs vertically, next to the altar where I meditate. It is an old, cloth, “hippie” belt worn proudly fifty years ago, woven of yellow and green cotton fabric, with tassels at both ends, and measures about five feet long.


How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

With the public gravitating toward insular hostile camps, bipartisan cooperation is rare in our current politics. Mónica Guzmán building a bridge between such groups. She has experience in doing so as the director of digital and storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the partisan divide in our democratic republic.


Shadows at the Edges

With spring comes optimism, including around the challenge of COVID. We see people returning to art exhibitions, sporting events, visiting the famous cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus, even attending the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington D.C., most without masks.  Others are returning to movie theatres, or coming out for ceremonial events like weddings, and funerals. 


Playing 2nd Base, Number 42

Now imagine, it is April 14th, 1947.  Every professional player and coach you see on the baseball diamond is white. Seems strange doesn’t it?


PR for People The Connector Magazine - April 2022

In the April issue we explore money as the harbinger of power. He who has the wealth makes the rules. Who has it? Who wants it? Why do a few people have so much money? And finally we ask: Why is freedom a constant struggle?


Book Review: Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Love & Murder Vol. 1: Break the Bank

Vol. 1: Break the Bank, first in the series Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Love & Murder, is streamlined, exciting, and has super-smooth transitions, even when the story’s protagonist, Alby O’Brien, has a flash from the past. Funny and irreverent, with an I-don’t-give-a-shit-attitude, Alby O’Brien is a working-class guy who has had a lot of bad breaks in life. He might be an unlikely character to root for, but you can feel his failures and disappointments beneath his tough exterior, and you want him to win. 

 


Libraries We Love: The Breakers Part II

Youngest daughter Gladys Vanderbilt, who grew up to marry a Hungarian count and eventually inherited The Breakers, recalled that both of her parents were considered “shockingly lax” when it came to their children’s reading choices. 


Libraries We Love: The Breakers

 A seaside cottage would hardly be the first place most people would think of when asked where one might find what is arguably the most opulent library in America. But if that “cottage” were built during the height of the Gilded Age by one of America’s 19th Century titans of industry, then it should come as less of a surprise. For the ultra-rich in the late 1800s, it was a time when one-upmanship ran rampant, no expense was spared, and the phrase conspicuous consumption was coined.


White Man Stakes: On Insanity

The insane, who have achieved infamy, run the gamut from serial killer Ted Bundy to President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Putin is responsible for harming many more people than serial killer Ted Bundy, yet there is deep-rooted cultural reluctance to identify him as insane. 


Could there be a regime change in Russia?

White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said President Biden was not advocating for regime change in Russia when reporters asked. The US has done it in the past, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and other nations, so it is a fair question. In those instances, we have taken direct military actions or manipulated others to eject their leaders. However, it may have to result from their internal politics in Russia.