We shouldn't live in a country that so narrowly defeats Roy Moore. But we do. So let's celebrate
Commiserating and kvetching with a fellow writer Tuesday night, I confessed that it had been six weeks since my last opinion piece. I hadn't been sure what to write, but mainly there was the issue of hope. News says, "This is the way things are," and opinion writing often replies, "This is the way they could and should be." Hope bridges the chasm between the present and an imagined future. Others had managed that leap; I hadn't.
