I am a terrible neighbor. My front yard is garden experiment gone Amazon. The porch around the house is starting to amass a large enough collection of used bikes and garden furniture that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if people start stopping for the “yard sale.” Shameless o… Read full post »

When the North East Coast of the US has record heat temperatures, I feel sorry for them. Just last week, when triple digits hit three days in a row, senior citizens were dying from heat stroke in unairconditioned apartments, NY was breaking records for peak electrical use, DC was having electrical… Read full post »

Sifting through the news, the blogs, and the photographs: the 6 month mark after the earthquake in Haiti, the ecological wreck in the Gulf of Mexico, more deaths from suicide bombings in Peshawar Pakistan. Even the World Cup, the highlight of my summer, momentarily darkens under the scandal… Read full post »