I heard an Indian novelist interviewed recently. Asked what struck her when she first came to America, she said, “I noticed that in America, the rich are thin and the poor are fat—the opposite of my country.” Of course, she
It begins with an agonizing silence–The Duke of York standing at a microphone in Wembley Stadium trying to bring the world’s greatest exposition to a dignified conclusion for the entire British Empire listening on the radio. His stammering and stage
On the left you see a picture of my garden hose, the one I failed to turn off after hosing down the front porch. The temperature dropped, the hose popped, and I now have a column of ice reminding me