We Wrote On

February 2012
S M T W T F S
« Oct    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
26272829  

Archive

Mining exposition

“We deed NOT come to Chin-ah to pleeey arrround!”  The African exhibitor from Zimbabwe holds both hands out in front of him as if he’s squeezing a brick of gold between his palms.  He looks me dead in the eye, his gut busting out over his beltline like a gigantic stone about to roll off [...]

Leading the Blind Part 2

The clouds drifting in the sky also have dreams.  The longest road in life is the return home.  The infinite cloudless day, is like the passing of years.  I hink of a distand place, and remember your sweet smile. In the words of my grandmother, Louise Oppenheimer Levin, the opening lyrics of “Hope,” when translated into [...]

Leading the Blind

Lin Miaoke is my idol.  With pigtails hanging down from her cute little 9 year old head, she wowed the world during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics as she flawlessly performed on stage during a version of “Ode to the Motherland.”  It was a perfect, clean-cut lip-synching debut.   It didn’t matter that the voice that the world [...]

Page 1 of 1012345...10...Last »