It’s been a bit of a journey… Travel is indeed the best of times and the worst of times. There’s the exhilaration of freedom and the deprivation caused by the absence of the familiar. There’s the spontaneous joy in unexpected delights and the crashing disappointment when expectations aren’t met. Because I’m writing a book about […]
Halloween tomorrow. Though of course like most things on the calendar, Halloween’s been going on for a couple of weeks now. I am currently attempting to get to New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, so in the meantime, here is a themed excerpt from 40 days 40 nights… It’s Halloween. A gaggle of […]
Child Abuse… Again. Every time it happens, we rant in outrage or bow our heads and mumble about the inevitability of it all. But neither response provides any relief for the powerlessness we feel. The outraged, campaign and raise money to track down the perpetrators. For the bowed heads, it’s yet another reason to lock up children […]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the enormous poster of Clint Eastwood behind the real Clint Eastwood pretty much summed up the state we’re in. We think our identity is who we really are. We also think things were better forty years ago – when the good guy was in charge and the […]
There’s true and there’s truth. True is a bunch of facts – a news story rather than a new story. In the old days, life was very black and white so facts were an adequate component of a story. Our moral compass was clear. Things were right or wrong. The strong protect the weak. We […]