Now, more than ever, I needed to go home to Mother.
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You, Me, The Atlantic
Category: Travel
If you had asked me even a year before could I see myself living in the American South, I would have shaken my head.
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Stopover
“Nostalgia is a funny thing,” I said, looking at the flowers I’d forgotten to give to my friend, Ann, “Kind of like these limp roses.” We were standing on a weathered pier, looking out at the grey water of York River, trying to conjure up a connection with this place we had so often visited […]
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Moonlighting
Our second May post ended up over at Two Brauds Abroad: Eating Like a Local Around the World
I’ve long felt that the United States’ economic model is leading us to ruin. The grab-all approach to business and wealth strengthens the strong while shutting doors to the rest of us. Capitalism encourages greed and monopoly. This graph clearly illustrates the rise of corporate profits (the blue line) and the decline of employee wages […]