Whither the healing?

I’m with Bernie Sanders: Funny thing is, the night after the election, a Trump-supporting brother called. He acknowledged that his candidate was flawed, but that he voted for him because business (he’s a businessman in New Mexico). Do you go ahead and argue this one? The election is over, after all, though some people are …

Dear President Obama,

So I bought a banjo

Mostly, I bought the thing to remind myself I have zero — zilch, nada, none — musical talent. This has long been a source of angst for me, because my brother Tom appears to have sucked up all the musical talent in  our family, and I thought I might wrestle some back. Of course, saying he has …