New Orleans         Moldova is squeezed into the crawl space of Europe between Ukraine and Romania.  It’s one of those former USSR countries trying to find a space and place in the world, and finding it hard to do so in the current mix and mayhem of the economy.  Though some might ascribe this …

 New Orleans         On the road for three weeks means a pile of messages I couldn’t access on the cell from India for whatever reason, email I couldn’t read for the same technical mysteries, and some old fashioned mail stacked up and waiting.  There was a surprise piece though, a book of some kind …

New Orleans     Finally after a 40 plus hour schlep from almost 8000 miles away in the world, I found myself straggling home to New Orleans and the bounty of spring in the city.  I picked up a lucky break changing planes in Chicago and wildly ended up on the same flight with a bunch …