Michael Barton

My first day of the year is a planned empty day, and a joyful thing. I know this last year has been a significant one for me, but I’m not...

It's time for us white people to get messy, to screw it up, and to get it wrong. Just after we all watched George Floyd's murder and the...

I love cemeteries. They are old and reverent and beautiful places, and the residents are quiet and accommodating. I enjoy sitting on...

The plan was to go for a boat ride on the Ganges at sunrise, then back to my hotel for breakfast. That was the plan. My fellow travelers...

“The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2016,...

Like roughly half our nation who voted for Hillary, I've been bouncing around in a mix of shock, anger, disappointment and fear since the...

Sometimes, I get something stuck in my head and it drives me. I get obsessed. I can’t let it go until it's done with me. I recently...

In 2001, I bought an Arts and Crafts home built in 1911 in Los Angeles. There was good and bad news. The good news was that nothing had...