New Orleans Looking at the banner behind the stage, you could see a whole bedroom of strange bedfellows. Of course there was Hope Worldwide, the charitable arm of the International Church of Christ, a somewhat fractious and controversial religious group, which had brought the bulk of the 1500 young volunteers to Bush Park in …
Category: Personal Writings
Peek-a-boo Passports
New Orleans Turns out that working for the U.S. State Department in the passport section is exactly like being a stringer for People magazine. If you get a little bored with the paperwork from time to time, just open a big fat file and take a look at some well known traveler and …
Guide to Environmental Health
New Orleans Usually when you read about a book that a publisher spent $1.6 million and allowed the authors to take eight years to get thing together for a July roll-out, this is the back story for some beach book potboiler with plenty of steamy scenes and page flying fury. The money usually …