Vancouver: Staying at a friend’s condo in the gas town area of Vancouver, I could see the freight containers being craned into place on the docks of the port throughout the night. The steel wheels of trains pushed them down the track and inland from this western port as they came in from the west. I …
Category: Personal Writings
Pimp My Ride
New Orleans: Everyone should have a favorite television show. Truth to tell, most everyone does in fact have one – even people who swear they never watch TV or only watch it sporadically (like me). Mine these days is on MTV. I stumbled onto it one Saturday evening a couple of weeks ago. I have no …
Blue Moon
Lafayette: The SEIU Local 100 Annual Leadership Conference was going to be held this year in Lafayette, Louisiana. We had won an election for 300 Head Start workers employed by a private non-profit called SMILE in Lafayette at the beginning of this year and had just come to a tentative agreement on the contract. Additionally, we …