Welcome to My Knews!
It’s getting hard to sort through the news these days. I read the news on an aggregated source every morning and still have a hard time deciphering it all. Half of the time while I’m reading a news article I feel like I must have missed 3 years worth of news leading up to this one event, because I can’t figure out how it happened.
To be completely frank, I would consider myself a mildly informed citizen – I can hold a conversation about the Secretary of Education appointee with my cab driver but have to look up on the internet how “Aleppo” and Syria as a whole became a thing I needed to know about (though I can tell you what’s going on over there now).
I’ve always taken an interest in history and current events (and know that it’s my duty as a good American citizen to stay informed) but unfortunately my poor memory (ask anyone I’m friends with) prevents me from remembering too many names, dates and cities without often having to look the same things up time and time again. So that’s how I came to this idea. I know from conversations with my other well educated, mildly informed friends that it’s not just me having a hard time keeping up with the news. We all want to be informed, we want to be aware and we want to be involved.
All of this is to say, there is a lot of news that I knew and a lot of news that I look forward to saying “I knew that!” rather than “I should have known that.”
So come along with me as I try to figure out where our country (and others) are now, how we’ve gotten here, and where it looks like we may be going.
My Knews 