Buenos Aires The excitement for this week had been the march scheduled on Friday evening in Barracas, one of the older communities by the Rio de la Plata, where we have been organizing for the last several years. The protest was to try to force the building of a police station on the Barracas …
Category: Personal Writings
Gene Upshaw
Buenos Aires Part of my daily routine in Buenos Aires includes going on the web and going through the stories on the Times website. I was shocked the other day to see a piece about Gene Upshaw, the long time head of the National Football League Players’ Association, suddenly dead at only 63. Our …
Nina’s Place
Buenos Aires I had heard Andrea Kydd describe her bucolic country life in the summers for years where she would take her big dogs to upstate New York and live in a doublewide on some acres up there. I had not realized until she died some of the rest of the story, including the fact …