It is 7 am on Saturday morning, and who wants you to get up and fix breakfast? You wake to a wet tongue panting near your face, or a screeching meow in your ear. Pets look forward to their every meal. The happiest part of your pets day, is the moment their bowl hits […]
A TIME TRIP TO THE ERIE CANAL
ERIE CANAL VILLAGE…. FIFTEEN MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL Just a few miles south of Rome, NY a short steel-railed bridge crosses an anonymous stream. It runs East-West, straight as an arrow, as if nature had played a trick on itself. It did not. Men in fact built […]
KEY WEST, A STEP BACK IN TIME
KEY WEST:A STEP BACK IN TIME Topside, the waning rays of the setting sun bathed the eclectic grouping that gathers each evening for the sunset ritual on Key West‘s Mallory St. Pier. They probably didn’t know it, but they were standing on the birthplace of the Florida Keys. "You will naturally […]
AIDS & Spatial Planning
The Metlife Foundation and the Enterprise Foundation share a common commitment in building healthy communities. Began in 1996, the group recognizes nonprofit groups for innovation in two main areas: supportive housing and property asset management. The “Awards For Excellence In Affordable Housing,” represents models that serve as inspiration for other groups with a desire […]
Chivalry is dead
“Women belong in the kitchen!” screams a report from the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and with a heavy heart I concede that I’m forbidden to do the housework. Alas the metrosexual inside me wants to help out, honestly, but the chauvinist fascists at CRUK just won’t allow it. A recent study of over 200,000 women […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]