“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here They were talking about guns – the best handgun for the price, the one least likely to jam, and the weapon that guaranteed it could stop any intruder. Both had concealed carry permits. James went armed on road trips and hiking. Both knew neighbors who had created farms on their properties so that they could be self-sufficient when ‘things’ got worse. They knew people who were stockpiling water, construction materials, […]
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You Can Listen Here Delta leaps out of the horse trough and gallops up the hill toward me. She runs like a horse, not a dog. She kathumps-kathumps-kathumps in long strides through clover and buttercup. No gliding for her. Her power resides in those big shoulders and deep chest. She is a Karelian bear dog, and I am falling in love, and I know that I cannot take her home. When she is a […]
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You Can Listen Here On Christmas Day of 2012 I unwrapped a present that was really a time machine – two small sealed tubes holding swabs I was to use to scrape the inside of my mouth and documents that described how I was about to become a part of scientific information gathering on a world-wide scale. Scrape, seal, mail to National Geographic, and five months later my genetic history, and by extension, the […]
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You Can Listen Here New York City in the 1970’s, Victorian London (especially in the time of the Ripper , the 1880’s), and the Moscow of today have long captivated my imagination. I visited New York often in the 70’s and learned at least the rudiments of street awareness there, Dickens’ and Stevenson’s London have left indelible images in my imagination and Arkady Renko’s Moscow is described by Smith in seven novels detailing the police detective’s efforts […]
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