basically BECKY blog

I've never been a big fan of fairytales. Not even as a kid. Seems my 6-year-old Anna feels the same way. She started watching Rapunzel...

It's been one year. But it's also been hundreds of years. One year ago we watched George Floyd breathe his last breath, calling for his...

I wonder what you thought your little gift would do. Did you think it would scare us, or that we'd read it and say, "Man, this fella has...

I think, deep down, we all know what's right. And if we wonder, finding the answer is easy. Regardless of the God we pray to, or if we...

We lost a lot in the last four years. We lost our people. Not just to COVID. Not to death. But to cruelty, their own cruelty that came...

Money makes the world go round. And it makes small people sell their souls, and their country, for more. More money, more power, more...

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. I think that's what's been driving me mad for the last 4 years. He showed us who he...

Our lives are living records. Every day, with every interaction, we leave behind evidence of our character. That evidence acts as clues,...

If we just got rid of men, we could eliminate abortion. Sounds crazy, right? But it's true. Men are a part of this equation.

I'm tired. But I want to be kind and I want to leave the door open, with a welcome mat, and I want to remind you that you can still walk...

On Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old white child murdered by his black neighbor, and used by racists to denounce a movement: Know what’s...

On Saturday, Anna and I were outside playing. Or, truthfully, I was trying to have a rare phone conversation and Anna was following me...

I keep wanting to stomp my feet and scream, "You're not seeing her. They're not seeing her." Breonna Taylor was young and beautiful and...

I hope you saw it. I hope you saw the protestors on their knees. Peacefully. Hands up. I hope you saw the horses charge. The tear gas...

Maybe strong isn't stoic. Maybe it isn't the chin up, chest forward, all-business kind of business we've been conditioned to believe....