A Lenny Randle Story — I was at my desk at work on a Thursday morning, November 12th, 2020, and something wasn’t quite right about the way my cell phone was buzzing against my desk. An incoming text is one medium-long buzz. A message notification from Twitter, Messenger or Reddit is two short buzzes in…

This is a moment frozen in time, the one summer of my youth that truly seemed endless. The three men with me are Lee Lacy, Lenny Randle, and Bobby Tolan *[I believe Cesar Geronimo]: *Corrected through correspondence w Lenny.

On Tuesday, November 3rd 2020, Oregon passed an historic ballot measure that decriminalized, in effect, possession of all drugs, in small user-level quantities. The treatment program that is being developed in place of punitive measures is fully funded by taxes on recreational marijuana. The measure passed with a fairly broad…

When I see a picture of Rep. John Lewis from Alabama, my imagination always sees the young John in a shirt and tie, a tan trench coat and a backpack, marching from Selma to Montgomery. I didn’t learn anything about this in public school, I’m not gonna lie. My life…