On the unbearable lightness

It’s steamy-hot here in New England, the kind of hot I thought I escaped when I left Missouri. The showers they promised us have evaporated, along with multiple other promises of showers, and we’re looking at temperature in the 90s, and humidity at 120 percent — or so it feels. As I type this, I …

“End deaths on the sea by ending the wars around it.” An essay.

In the wake of that awful capsizing in the Mediterranean that took hundreds of migrant lives, Read this wonderful op-ed by Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera. He writes: …today we’re in the midst of a 15-year-long period of global war and unprecedented wealth and power historically unrivalled oil prices and arms sales bring – both …