By Jim Heffernan When Justin Aufdermauer was appointed to the vacant school board position, a vacancy was created on the School District’s Policy Committee. Two people submitted applications and I have included…
Category: I’ve been thinking
I’ve Been Thinking: Binge Reading & Dylan
OIOpublisher By Jim Heffernan (Mister Peabody, please set the Wayback Machine to 1965) I’ve been thinking about this reading binge I’ve been on these last years and also lines from a Bob…
BOOK REVIEW: Listen, Liberal: or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? –
By Jim Heffernan This is a book I started reading 8 days after the 2020 election, once my shell-shock had dissipated. It started a reading binge that has continued until the present…
BOOK REVIEW: Strangers in Their Own Land
By Jim Heffernan This is Arlie Hochshcild’s 9th and latest book. It was a finalist for a National Book Award. It the result of 5 years research in rural Louisiana into the…
I’ve Been Thinking – The Cowboy Code
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about what it might take to bring more “niceness” back to our daily lives. That was the goal of the recently posted “Civility Pledge”…
BOOK REVIEW: I’m Still Here – Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By Jim Heffernan This month (February) is “Black History Month” and I chose this book because it represents a different take on the black experience. The book is a memoir of a…
I’ve been thinking … Join me & Sign the Pioneer’s Civility Pledge
I’ve been thinking how talking politics has changed over the years, not for the better. I can remember times when two people could have entirely opposite views and still have a civil,…
BOOK REVIEW: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
By Jim Heffernan “For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material…
I’ve been thinking … FDR’s Spaceship & Second Bill of Rights
By Jim Heffernan I was thinking about how I might articulate my personal moral and political philosophy in another way and, after a bit, this description jumped out. Both of my parents…
BOOK REVIEW: Dirt Road Revival – How to rebuild rural politics and why our future depends on it
By Jim Heffernan I’m an old man, and most of the books I read are written by people as old or older than me. This book’s authors, Chloe and Canyon, are barely…