Author: Nancy Werking Poling
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A united work force
Daniel: “Here I was, a college graduate with little hope of using my skills or reaching my potential. As long as laborers were afraid to organize, they were powerless. Besides, if I joined the union, what did I have to lose?”
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After the Flood (excerpt from “Survival,” in HAD EVE COME FIRST AND JONAH BEEN A WOMAN)
I don’t believe God caused this disaster. Surely she weeps over the people’s suffering and the massive destruction.
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Thoughts about Confederate monuments
How do descendants of those who fought for unjust causes deal with a grief that time does not heal?
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Since Charlottesville, #2
The violence in Charlottesville forced me to rethink my disengagement since Election 2016. How ashamed I am that as a straight white woman I had the luxury of considering my anger an inconvenience.
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Since Charlottesville
I thought I was doing the right thing, being silent these past seven months. Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville challenged that notion.
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Watergate and Canned Tomatoes
During the summer of 1973—while I canned fifty quarts of tomatoes, fifty quarts of tomato juice, twenty pints of tomato sauce, and twelve pints of catsup—Men in Power were asking what did Nixon know and when did he know it.
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Trump’s take on Andrew Jackson
Trump is not just uninformed; he is promoting a revised history, and I doubt that it’s accidental.
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Kim Jong-Un as a cult leader
What we know about cult behavior suggests that it’s hard, if not impossible, to predict the leader’s and his followers’ reactions. An apocalyptic end that includes bombing Seoul may be more alluring than all other options.
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Two writers weigh the impact of travel on Earth’s climate
Battle fatigued climate scientists say that everything we do will make the future better.
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Travel: an environmental dilemma
For the first time I’m considering how my love of travel impacts the environment.
Nancy Werking Poling 