Buenos Aires: In Argentina everything is dated before or after the “crisis.” The crisis was the defining economic collapse when the value of the peso went to dirt and all of the bills came due. Banks closed and depositors lost their shirts. Interestingly, the people reacted by organizing and organizing in new and exciting forms. …
Category: Personal Writings
Ohio — The Beat Goes On!
Columbus, Ohio: Flying into Peru in the aftermath of a series of hella-days, it was hard for me not to wonder what was now ranging loose and at large in the world. Without doubt, part of this is provoked by the every four year festival of folly that seems to typify an Inauguration and its …
Water from Hell!
New Orleans: We were on vacation. We had too much time! We were riveted to the television set in a way that would not have been possible at any other time. We flipped channels between CNN and BBC over and over, mesmerized and horrified. We bought papers whether we could read them or not, whether they …