I love stars but, unfortunately, don’t see many. This week, resting from a day of hiking, we sat listening to the gentle wash of Lake Superior’s waves against the rocks below. The sky just 12 miles from the Duluth city limits was brilliant with stars and the light brush of the Milky Way.
We live in [...]
We watched Walter Cronkite.
Walter’s most searing moment in history came when he directly challenged the Pentagon and the Johnson administration over Vietnam. Yet, as Glenn Greenwald writes, much of the discussion of Cronkite will miss a key and pointed criticism over the state of journalism today.
We read or hear that Cronkite called the Vietnam War [...]
We’re enjoying a quiet moment at a nice cafe in downtown Indiana, PA, called “Amadeus.” It’s fittingly decorated anti-corporate and has the low hum of a library. The owners, William and Andrea Szep, do a lovely job with coffee from their twin, old-fashioned 1 lb roaster. Such places as this are off the map but [...]
The email I share with my family runs me through Yahoo’s portal where up popped an article about bike rallies — naked bike rallies — going on March 14 in major cities in the Southern Hemisphere. Northern Hemisphere rallies are planned for June 13 if this is an event you don’t want to miss. (See [...]
