New Orleans It is hard to type the words, Zach is dead. None of us live forever, but somehow, I still thought Zach Polett would be with me until the end, just as he had worked with me in one way or another for over fifty years. His letter asking for a job is …
Category: Personal Writings
Notes on Brazil for My Father
Sao Paulo My father would have liked Brazil. He knew “field” Spanish from time spent in the California orange groves when his dad was a foreman there near Orange and Santa Anna. He would help out and talk to the Mexican workers when they were putting out smudge pots to ward off freezes or …
Meeting the Burgemeester
Heerlen The National Programma Heerlen Nord is one of twenty large community and economic development projects established by the Netherlands government to change the conditions in targeted communities over a twenty to twenty-five year timeline. These are potentially large scale operations with lots of moving pieces, requiring a high level of consensus and …