Tuesday's postcard, and a couple things I didn't have to worry about today because I'm white

August 29, 2023

August sunset, north of Deer Park, WA

A shooting in Jacksonville

I do most of my writing early, usually beginning in the dark. When I’m finished I usually open a link to a news channel and turn to tasks that require less focus. And it was this way on Saturday, toward the noon hour, when I heard the “breaking news out of Florida” that there’d been a shooti…