I had dinner with a friend the other night. We both come from the land of misfit toys. We still believe we can make a difference in Africa, but it is getting harder and harder to explain ourselves to our peers. Going to places where grenades go off and people are routinely killed with machetes [...]
Today the world celebrates love and ignores the hatred. Today is Valentine’s Day. It is not a particularly important day to me. I think loving should be a year round event, but it does do a lot for the card and flower industry . Yesterday I was reading the Nation, as I do each day, [...]
We grew prize-winning roses in our backyard when I was a child. I pored salt down holes in the rock garden to kill the weeds. And then the gardener did the rest. I was back in Virginia this weekend. I forget how riveting the countryside is. I got to the horse country during photographer’s light, [...]
Big Bird Never Called Bad Names. So Yay for X and Y I am really tired of folks calling the 20somethings and 30somethings spoiled brats who need tons of recognition and are self-centered pleasure seeking heathens. It’s so easy to find a general rule and then dump folks into it. But that’s just because [...]
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