Give me memories as
slow to leave as snails.
In foreign and perhaps
fragile years I’ll still be able
Mount Vernon, NY, summer 2001
Sitting on the concrete steps in the back of my grandma’s house, our dad shows us how to burn paper with a magnifying glass. Says people kill ants this way, how cruel it is. It was true: the magnifying glass...
We stayed one night at Karl’s place in Jimena de la Frontera in southern Spain. Let me begin with the PROs.
How a Crisis of Books Led to a Social Awakening
