Tag Archives: The New York Times

Blooming on Bare Branches

Posted on February 28, 2023 by aamontgomery

Can we bloom during the many, mini-winters of our springs? Continue reading →

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Remember Who You Are

Posted on April 30, 2022 by aamontgomery

Knowledge of our ancestors, the people who made our lives possible, guides us and helps us remember who we are. Continue reading →

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Collateral Damage

Posted on September 30, 2020 by aamontgomery

Throughout history humans have sought easy answers to complex issues. When things go wrong, how can we protect the most vulnerable: Women, older people, the poor, and our children? Continue reading →

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Smiling Like a Showgirl

Posted on March 31, 2020 by aamontgomery

A letter to my 14-month-old granddaughter during the coronavirus of 2020. Continue reading →

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The Day the Music Lived

Posted on June 30, 2019 by aamontgomery

Buddy Holly’s quintessentially American music could have died with him in a plane crash in 1959. But the power of his idiosyncratic genius lives on. Our music is what defines us and our music is what saves us. Continue reading →

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Arriving at Last

Posted on October 31, 2017 by aamontgomery

In the fall of my senior year at South (Knoxville) High School, I was offered a full scholarship to Berea College, a small liberal arts college in Kentucky. I didn’t know it at the time, but Berea was founded in … Continue reading →

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Harper Lee’s Handlers Kill a Mockingbird

Posted on July 14, 2015 by aamontgomery

Ever since I read that To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee’s lawyer Tonya Carter and publisher HarperCollins were planning to publish the first draft of a novel she wrote 57 or so years ago, I have been sick to death … Continue reading →

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Birds a la Hitchcock, Ballanchine, and Boogaloo

Posted on February 20, 2015 by aamontgomery

On Wednesday I woke up and looked out our front door to find snow, ice, and swarms of birds (and I mean hundreds, not just a tweeting few) raucously flip-flapping as if they were reenacting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s … Continue reading →

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