New Orleans One of the things I am certain is a mistake is to claim that I am up to date about the wild world of the web (www!). Recently a couple of emails alerted me to a level of virtual weirdness that seemed both startling and bizarre. Here’s the bottom line. Seems there is …
Month: November 2006
Notes for My Dad — Part II
New Orleans The Saturday before Thanksgiving the whole family had the good sense to do what had to be done by whatever means necessary as the saying used to go to get home for their mother’s birthday, so the daughter rolled in over night from South America, the son from the frozen north, and I did …
Fighting for Space
Tokyo, Japan Changing planes during my 24 hours of travel back to the United States, it struck me that in both Korea and Turkey I recently heard very interesting stories of community based organizations in difficult markets fighting municipal authorities for office space — and winning! These things matter because in tight and expensive markets the ability …