View from the North 40: When the going gets tough, get wordy

This has been a tough week, so to get through it I thought long and hard about what the people I know and respect do to cope with adversity: They play to their strengths — meditation, prayer, binge eating. So I turned to the only thing I have going for me, writing.

Sometimes you need that knife’s-edge state of mind to cut out that which is troubling you.

Specifically, the so-called alt-right rally of white nationalists, white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members in Charlottesville, Virginia, is troubling me.

So much angry hate, one woman, Heather Heyer, died and 19 people were injured when a...