On Mothers’ Day

My youngest sister just posted this on facebook. Every single person in the picture is a mother now – a fact both astonishing and not.  In this photo the mom is my mom, our mom.  Here, somewhere in a field in south central Texas, she sits forever 33 with her four little girls, lined up by age.  I’m the oldest, the one in all yellow. Also in that forever way, I know… Read More

Change and Topography

Last year by this date, the EX:Change project had taken me, via Mini Cooper, across about 5000 miles.  That’s a lot a lot of miles…and I was only half way. Already and more times than I can begin to recount, I’d been swept into that American road trip bonus:  The mix of surprise and awe at another unfolding of landscape – even the stretches I’d seen so many times before.  The land of this country… Read More

So, where do we go from here?

  “I think change is trying new things and trying to see if something works for the better or for the worse. ” Alcena, HighTech High LA Yesterday, Bob Herbert used his column in the New York Times  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/opinion/09herbert.html?th&emc=th to lift the curtain on the economic numbers behind the ‘average. ’  On average, as reported this past week jobless rates were vastly improved – i.e., decreased. Herbert quotes a recent Center for Labor Market Studies report:… Read More