RIP: Madelyn Dunham, October 26, 1922 - November 3, 2008
“A quiet hero”, indeed.
May your grandson, and America itself, do you proud.
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Yes We Can, Must and WILL
03-Nov-08Morning Cup of Zen
28-Oct-08I’m currently subscribed to 13 (coincidence) podcasts, three via NPR and a few other NPR-style programs like KCRW’s Left, Right and Center. Of them, my favorite is NPR’s Most Emailed Stories, a daily assortment of “the best of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs,” based on reader recommendations.
Their “This I Believe” [...]
Goodbye Potter’s Field
18-Apr-08Home ownership is a key theme in one of my favorite movies, It’s a Wonderful Life, and as I called our current landlord this morning to officially let them know we won’t be renewing our lease, I couldn’t help but recall the scene where Mr. Martini is moving his family into their new home courtesy [...]
I’m Not Dead
17-Apr-08…but I certainly feel like I’ve been buried alive lately!
Speaking, tangentially, of being careful what you wish for*, I’d totally understand if Obama was really close to just saying “screw y’all” and handing the nomination to Clinton. Hunter S. Thompson’s sentiment – paraprashing someone else, I believe — “In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve [...]
Go see Liberty City
12-Mar-08I went to see Liberty City last night, April Yvette Thompson’s multi-layered, one-person account of her upbringing in the infamous Miami neighborhood during the chaotic 70s, told against a backdrop of the rise and fall of the Black Power movement, the Crack epidemic and the Liberty City Riots that led to Miami being declared a disaster area, literally and figuratively. Co-written [...]