The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]
Life stories on a greyhound bus
I don’t know who you are. But I know you will be interested in the stories I am going to share with you. And I know you have the same beautiful stories you can share with others. Because we are all spirits in this world. These stories happened all on a greyhound bus. There is […]
The Hands of Romeo
La Plata, Argentina — The old adage that necessity is the mother of invention is one Guillermo Gomez-Romeo, grill maker and owner of the custom barbeque supply shop Pigue, has taken to heart. In cow-obsessed Argentina, where per capita consumption of beef hovers at 150 lbs per year, the highest in the world, the […]
Mr One Dollar
The sun was setting as the Iran Air Jumbo Jet taxied gently down the runway of Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. I admired the view of Dubai’s modern architecture as we took off into the clear sky over the Persian Gulf and banked eastwards. I was flying to Tehran a day ahead […]
Dr Kramer
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">About a week after one of those what-are-you-doing-after-all-these-years email drops into the basket, I find myself struggling for an answer. Would that I had a neat one-liner of a career! Engineer! Marketing manager! Drug-addled whore! Cop! Dropout and copout! None-of-the-above is ticked with a tut-tut and I tinkle at keyboard […]
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