I always knew there was something I didn’t like about the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. I thought it wasn’t it, though, it was me. I thought it was how detached the pink water bottles, t-shirt, caps and especially the annoying ubiquitous ribbons left me feeling from what the actual point was. I [...]
Archive for the ‘The Center of World Chaos’ Category
Classism
February 2, 2012
Other people’s madness
January 22, 2012
LANTANA, FL — I don’t think I’m the only one who left the last meeting of our homeowner’s association feeling good about our community. It was a model of protocol. We not only had a quorum, but every single person there behaved with consideration and decorum. We did of course catch a few lucky breaks. [...]
Hard Times
January 5, 2012
Everywhere — The first big news today was that Willard “Mittens” Romney, the guy who has managed to maintain a belief in magic underpants, but not in people’s right to healthcare, got eight more votes than Rick Santorum,whose name is a synonym for, well, for santorum, who has been steadfast in his contempt for human [...]
Mobile Home Community Christmas Party
December 28, 2011
LANTANA, FL — I always wished I could live in the kind of little English village where that Agatha Christie mysteries and Jane Austen romances unravelled. I envied people who lived communally enough with their neighbors to guess at their secrets, but not enough to know them. That is at least part of what drew [...]
No, We Haven’t
November 8, 2008
THE CENTER OF WORLD CHAOS, FL — Since the fall of 2000, when the mailman and I discovered our common sympathies, we have taken every opportunity when our paths crossed to complain about the folly, evil, ineptitude, greed and nastiness of those running our country, and those allowing that to happen. As this included all [...]
Democracy ain’t for sissies
November 5, 2008
A CHURCH MEETING ROOM, LANTANA, FL —We met before dawn, a dozen or so people who under no other circumstances would have been likely to spend an hour together, and certainly not the 14 hours we had pledged. Having signed up to work the polls election day, and take an inadequate three-and-a-half-hour class to learn [...]
