A Different Perspective

The Affair

Her name is Isabel. I’ve known about her my entire life; she is the neighbor who slept with my father when I was a baby. Isabel was also married, they were good friends of my parents. There still are so many photos of the whole crowd, at picnics by the river, at cocktail parties, neighborhood gatherings.

Apparently, Nestle CEO Tim Brown, says he wants to **increase** the amount of water Nestle takes from California for bottled water, regardless of how devastating the drought is.

From The Guardian:

“The fact is, if I stop bottling water tomorrow, people would buy another brand of bottled water,” Brown…

A Psychology and Theology of Clergy Abuse

In her essay on “Place in Fiction” Southern writer Eudora Welty writes about places and regions that confine and define. This seems to me to be a profound psychological statement. Perhaps there is no region of the country where authors have so captured the…

I CAN REMEMBER WHEN SEX WAS SAFE

AND FLYING WASN’T

I went to ‘Sweet-16’ parties in the 1940’s — became pretty good with the ‘rhumba’, the ‘foxtrot’, even the ‘samba’. Although shy, I definitely liked girls — liked them a lot — and started ‘dating’ in the 50's! Marilyn Monroe was…

The Guillotine Story

On Barbies, Marie Antoinette, and Being Left Home Alone

The guillotine was sitting on the kitchen table when I returned home from school that Spring day, left behind by my decade-older brother. It stood about 18" high, with a…