Today’s Guest Cartoonist Sam Olmsted is a very active political cartoonist. Guest Blogger, John Jay Chapman, writes over one hundred eight years ago about a horrific event that took place a year before. I was greatly moved by the Coatesville lynching at the time it occurred, and as the anniversary came round my inner idea… Continue reading
Date Archives → October 2020
The Jabot
A few years ago, my friend and WNO colleague Patricia Portillo told me she was creating a special jabot for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and wanted to know how she might go about presenting it to her. I told her I would happily speak to the Justice’s assistant Kim and let her know it was… Continue reading
“Sandra tells me you’re an opera singer!”
So began the conversation the afternoon I met Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Friday, March 25, 1994. The Justice was mid-way through her first Term at the Court, where I had been working at the IT Help Desk for two years. She had a pair of tickets to a performance at the Kennedy Center that evening… Continue reading