Medellin          The calendar is about to flip for another year, and, yes, even in our hyper-modern digital days, there are still plenty of old school calendars turning pages like crazy.  I used to try and get my family to make resolutions.  I’ve done them myself.  It’s hard to get excited about the task though, …

            New Orleans       My 15-year-old Australian Shepherd Lucha and I walk every morning before dawn when I’m home.  We have a fixed route Monday through Friday, which we vary on Wednesday, turning left, rather than right, at the dead end at the Mississippi River levee.  Whenever I have been out of town, even for …

New Orleans       Where have all of the heroes gone?  It’s a great social and cultural question, even for someone like me, who believes in the “folk” or people part of the phrase, but not the “hero” thing.  That’s just me and our work, but I understand why people want there to be heroes, just …