Hurricane Katrina Pushes Woman East then West

At age nine Linda began babysitting and cleaning homes, quit high school at sixteen, had her first child two years later, married a man who bombarded himself with drugs, divorced him, and began moving the other way.  For eight years she managed residential properties of a private investor, and eventually lived in one of his…

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The Toby Keith Nation

Do you like tattoos?  You’ll see plenty before a Toby Keith concert, especially if it’s outdoors in August in the Inland Empire, an exploding conglomeration of hot and sandy city-towns inhabited by those who can’t afford or don’t want to live near Los Angeles an hour to the west.  Out east in the desert, this…

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New Orleans Cries for New Priorities

As thousands of human and animal corpses decompose in waters contaminated with the detritus of a recently great city now synonymous with devastation, there is – as in every catastrophe – an implicit and utterly overwhelming demand to learn something, to avoid or at least diminish the horror of a similar experience.  So what are…

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