New Orleans I have shared the saga of our neighborhood library and its struggling efforts to comeback with help from many friends. Faithful readers will remember we (me and my son) tried to help out by going over on odd weekends and trying to mow the grass, but this plan, which started out so well, …
Category: Personal Writings
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 …
Senator Grassley’s Desperate Politics
New Orleans A letter was faxed in the afternoon from Senator Charles Grassley, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, to ACORN’s President Maude Hurd. It was 8 pages in length with about 60 questions asking for a world of information (a list of all ACORN employees, a list of all ACORN funders, and on and …