erika raskin.

There's this cartoon going around (I'd share it but copyright police), featuring dinner guests standing single file, plates at the ready,...

I'm scared shitless. Seriously. We are at a juncture in America. A terrifying one. A crossroads, with one avenue leading to (God willing...

In the Apocalypse everything is crazy. 1. My (much) younger sister, Eden, who has been hunkered down with her in-laws out in the rolling ...

Erika Raskin May 24, 2020 Daily Progress In my defense, I’d just envisioned raised beds. On the deck. Or maybe a bunch of those individua...

The ascent of the Black Lives Matter movement and the overthrow of apartheid symbols in the Capital of the Confederacy made me think of s...

I was on a walk, putting off household chores, listening to a terrible Audible book and contemplating the ramifications of suing the daug...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley That quote knocks me out so much I wanted to use it to laun...

And one of his preschool colleagues directed him in their house role-playing by stating, ‘I’ll be the wife, you be the cousin.’

As someone whose mouth dries out even under the luke-warmest of spotlights (running into a single acquaintance can trigger a full-on hot ...

How to be a great Samaritan like me.

Fascism is not a 9-5 proposition. Why should accomplices get to pretend they haven't done anything wrong when they've helped disappear kids?

There is great art everywhere. And space for all of it. Except for clown art, of course. There’s no room for that.

I was going to have one a few years ago but the prep instructions were so incomprehensible I unintentionally sabotaged the process.

We pushed, and pushed some more. And with a penultimate grunt I was staring up at the underside of the license plate

I smiled a la KellyAnne Conway when somebody brings up her husband's tweets.

My (subversive) novel had been chosen as a finalist in the People’s Choice category! By librarians!

You Can Vote (regardless of where you live!) I can’t even begin to describe what this means to me. (Seriously. I can’t. I spent a long ti...

He lived and loved ferociously. And he also helped change history.

...think ghost town in the middle of a super fund site — with a large population of soul-sucking rodents.

We have the Blue Ridge Mountains. And Monticello. And the University of Virginia. But one of my favorite places is the dump. Seriously.