St. Petersburg St. Petersburg is a dramatic city built around islands, rivers, canals, and bridges and somehow we ended up yesterday in sunshine even as the temperature turned slightly more crisp. Little did we realize what a rare blessing this might be until we found that on the Baltic and at the same …
Category: Protests
Short Shots
Quito In another setback for globalization DHL did not come through, so this is another "thumbnail" report – literally. Tom Robbins wrote a book about a cowgirl years ago, when I still read fiction, who had a huge hitch-hiking thumb. To think another couple of days like this and I might have two thumbs like …
Sudan Boycott Impact
Buenos Aires A couple of weeks ago I was meeting with a woman in New York, who put down the phone to explain that she was just arranging “kidnap and ransom” insurance for the actress, Mia Farrow, who was preparing to leave with a delegation to Sudan to protest the genocide there. I was …