Catania After flying on four planes to JFK, then Zurich, then Milan, I finally arrived in Catania, the 2nd largest city of Sicily, around 8PM on Thursday. Professor Ken Reardon from the University of Memphis and me turn out to be headliners at a conference Dal Locale al Globale: Organizzare le comunita per lo sviluppo …
Category: Personal Writings
Called to Nineveh
New Orleans The Interfaith Workers’ Justice network was having a summit at Tulane University in New Orleans and its director, Kim Bobo, and communications guy, Danny Postel, invited us to come down for the plenary Saturday night. The summit had included a number of worker center and day labor activists and old friends like Jim …
Marsh before Hurricane Season
Slidell My son and I are hardly scientists, but we know something about the marsh and bayous between Lake Pontchartrain and the West Pearl River. Until Katrina we had a fishing camp on two acres a mile or so as a crow would fly from the Lake. Now we have two acres of mainly marsh …