Cross Cultural Illumination #1: It is a Cat-Dog
Dinner with two recent Ethiopian Asylees shine a light on Americans’ curious personification of pets. One of the most puzzling American habits to those new the USA is our treatment…
Lenten Challenge #5: Rebooting Your Approach to the Dark Times
This Lent, I’ve been preoccupied with dark subjects. I’ve written about people who don’t have enough to eat, about pernicious ingrown racist attitudes and about innocent Asylum Seekers thrown in…
Lenten Challenge #4: Rebooting The American Way
“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” As a Blue State liberal, I was never a big flag waver. In fact it made me a little uneasy to…
