“Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.” – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician I grew up in the ’60s, during the “civil rights era” – not that it didn’t exist prior nor after, but it has come to be known by that moniker. And… Read More The People
“Well something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day….” – Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now I mean, just look at it. It’s a little neighborhood cafe. An octet of roughly put together wooden tables, slathered over with black paint, the chairs not much better, decor consisting of a black and white vine motif wallpaper… Read More Not Just Any Cafe
“Airmail (or air mail, in French Par avion) is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to… Read More Aloft in India
“Up a lazy river by the old mill run, that lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun.” – Sidney Arodin, songwriter, chorus to Lazy River I’m going to be as lazy as the Rio de la Plata in this post and leave it pretty much all to the photos. My usual trips to Uruguay are… Read More Up the Lazy River
“a la Romana: To cook by dredging in flour and egg and then frying. Catalan origin, literally meaning “in the Roman manner”, and not to be confused with a la Romaine, from the French, with the same literal translation, but which involves cooking something with eggs, spinach, anchovies and parmesan. I promised you I’d start… Read More In the Roman Manner
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Giuseppe Verdi You know that little Italian place down the street? The one with the tables too close together, and a little rickety at that. A bar overcrowded with bottles gathering dust because no one orders that stuff. Maybe a prosciutto or some sausages… Read More The Hunchback of Rodriguez Peña
“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.” – Jared Diamond, scientist and author With two themes competing for my attention, it came down to either picking one or doing a mashup.… Read More From Savannah to Santiago and Back Again
“Why Become Extinct? Authors with varying competence have suggested that dinosaurs disappeared because the climate deteriorated (became suddenly or slowly too hot or cold or dry or wet), or that the diet did (with too much food or not enough of such substances as fern oil; from poisons in water or plants or ingested minerals;… Read More Calcium, the Building Block