A knock at the door sent Calla flying into a fit of howling rage. It wasn’t yet 9 o’clock on a Saturday morning, and we had a visitor. It turned out to be FedEx. Why on this once-green Earth does FedEx deliver packages at 8:30 am on a Saturday? Unless it’s a kidney in a [...]
Entries from November 2008
Saturday, 8:30 am
November 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Life
On false hope, empty promises and pork chops
November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Now, I just know that you all have been refreshing this blog obsessively ever since I posted Part I of my mother’s surprise party escapade. As obsessively as you refreshed electoral maps as the results came in, I’m sure. [Side note: the painfully slow counting of Oregon ballots led to a county-by-county snail-paced horse race [...]
Tags: Life
YES WE DID—and there’s more to do
November 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, spoke at my college graduation. He began by outlining the state of the world: it was May of 2004 and things did not look good. Growing inequality—both globally and domestically—an unjust war, a plummeting perception of America abroad. It was more of a downer speech than one would [...]
Tags: Politics
Dear the Forces that Be: Please, please, please give us a President-Elect Obama
November 3rd, 2008 · 8 Comments
The next 24 hours will be excruciating. Today alone, my eyes welled with tears multiple times. It’s almost too much to handle. First, it was watching a video of Springsteen playing “This Land is Your Land” at an Obama rally. Then it was hearing the news of Barack’s grandmother’s death. Then it was reading an [...]
Tags: Politics
