Vancouver: A tip on a boat in high waves last year, trying to make it from Cortez Island to Vancouver Island to fly back and then home, led me to the Sylvia Hotel, a good enough, older house, which becomes fantastic because its location is hard by the beach at English Bay and right next to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Community Bakery = Community Institution
Little Rock Zach Polett and I met for breakfast to review ACORN’s political operations and of course we went to the Community Bakery on Main Street right above the Wilbur Mills Expressway as it dips to the east. This was not a new thing for me, but an old habit. For long stretches in the almost …
Talking China around the Kitchen Table
Little Rock Sitting around the kitchen table last night with my “outlaws” as they sometimes call themselves out of the blue China was on the agenda. One was just in from Fort Worth where he was superintending the construction of a music store for a Little Rock construction company. He related a story from …