May 14, 2024
Growing up in NYC
It was not until I briefly moved upstate in my late 20s that I encountered the kind of hyper-conservative people who picket abortion clinics and vote for Donald Trump. I know they exist in the city, but they are outnumbered to such an extent that I understood them and their various brands of bigotry as a caricature from television. This, I now realize, is a very privileged outlook.
In New York City, you get culture, diversity, mayhem and street smarts. In Tucson, where I live, you have space to breathe
