Author’s Note Most of the time when I sit down to write, it’s stories from the body shop, family life, road trips with Jamie, or memories from upstate New York. This post is different. It’s political, it’s heavy, and it’s personal. But it’s also a part of my life, and pretending it didn’t happen—or that it doesn’t matter—wouldn’t feel honest. What follows isn’t about taking sides. It’s about telling the story as I experienced it, and about what I think it says about the world my kids and yours are inheriting. The World We Live In Yesterday, my daughter Alida’s college, UNC Wilmington, went into lockdown for the second time in less than twenty-four hours. The first lockdown was for a bomb scare. The second was because of reports of an active shooter. Both turned out to be false alarms. But the chain of events, the way rumors snowballed online, and the political heat that flared up around it all… it tells us a lot about where we are as a country right now. And to be honest, I d...