The gusty wind blew the hat off my head onto Wabash Avenue. I stared at it as it flew up in the air, then landed smack in the middle of the oncoming traffic. I stood helpless for a moment as the cars rolled over and over it. Damn! I liked that hat! Now I had […]
A Hotel Room, Spiked lemonade, and Harry Belafonte Read More »
Niñas Sabias The only thing I knew about the organization Niñas Sabias before interviewing its dynamic founder, Hana Figueroa Uriás, was they provided reusable cloth menstrual pads for local girls. This is the least they do. Niñas Sabias, which means wise girls, is on a mission to empower girls by destigmatizing menstruation and planting the
Good Works Gazette – October 2025 Read More »
Years ago, at the Guadalajara airport while I was retrieving my suitcases in the baggage claim area, something unusual happened. I saw a yellow Labrador Retriever sniffing around the carousel. I figured he was looking for fruit, bombs, or drugs. I didn’t give it a second thought until he stopped dead in his tracks and
Ghost Drivers Destination weddings are very popular these days. My husband and I are in sunny Los Angeles for such an occasion this weekend. This particular wedding has three different venues, one in a neighboring town. The moving about has us using rider applications and I am learning that things continue to evolve, on the
Vexations and Conundrums – October 2025 Read More »
No thinker has jolted my world view like Harvard, Stanford, MIT scholar, Canadian Steven Pinker. He studies language, mind, and human nature and gives us a view of the trajectory of human history that, like an object too close to focus on, is too much part and parcel of who we are for us to
Illusion? Reality? In Between? In the very earliest of time… a person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being… and there was no difference. All spoke the same language. That was the time when words were like magic. The human mind had mysterious powers… and what
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The Blame Game How much longer can the world sustain the endless and unnecessary playing of the Blame Game? This is a vile and malicious game that has been played throughout time. The etymology of the phrase divide and conquer (from the Latin divide et imperia) first appeared in English around 1600.Its most common use
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