Gulf Shores There were red warning flags along the beach when I ran yesterday at dawn. There were other warning signs as I ran over the decking built over the marsh at the nature trail admonishing potential alligator feeders that they faced a $500 fine or 6-months hard time. I was sucking in the humidity …
Month: August 2008
Citi Finance’s Victim
Gulf Shores Babu Kahn runs the ACORN International and India FDI Watch office in Bangalore, India. He forwarded several messages that startled me from the torpor of steady warm, beach breezes on Gulf Shores. The headline announced “Citi Finance Roudism” and talked about some kind of suicide near Bangalore. I opened the file, and then …
Vaca Days
Gulf Shores Every 10 years we go camping in Wyoming in the Snowy Range Mountains outside of Laramie where I was born, but not this year. Two kids working who can’t get the time off, needing to spend time with my mother, and worrying about money like the rest of America, we found ourselves driving …