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Archive for July, 2007

An alternate existence

Posted in Politics, Social issues on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I walk in the front door at Adams County Prison at about 10:25 a.m. I’m here to visit an inmate.
I’m searched and logged in at 10:30 a.m. and escorted through a set of motorized doors. Heavy glass in steel frames, whirs back at the command of some invisible controller in a faraway control room, to [...]

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No Parking in D.C.

Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Politics, Social issues on July 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Every now and then, it’s good to leave home, to find out, as my mother often said, “how the other half lives.”
I don’t know that I really got a look at “the other half” last Saturday, but I got a look at Washington, D.C. traffic.
My destination was a farmers market at 14th and U. Where [...]

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546 words men need to understand

Posted in Social issues on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Turns out, according to a University of Arizona survey, women do not really talk significantly more than men; they just use different words, and even when they use the same words, they mean something else entirely.
Matthias R. Mehl, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, led the research and came up with [...]

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To Stay, or to die

Posted in History, Politics, Social issues, immigration on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A girl once told me she loved me, but she could not be happy for me, could not even associate socially with me, because I had not been “saved.”
Several years ago I attended school with the daughter of a close friend. After class, she and I would sit in the parking lot for an hour [...]

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