Daily Archives: 07/04/2008

(Community Matters) A lazy July 4th in the pool house

(Community Matters) Every year our Aldridge Place neighborhood hosts a parade circling Hemphill Park.

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former Senator Jesse Helms

(Community Matters) Good gosh, we will have the first African American running for president and we could also have the first gay VP nominee on the other ticket – sex-tapes and recent engagements notwithstanding.

(Community Matters) An evening at Bill & Amy’s comes close. Enjoyed an exquisite and most scrumptious evening with them, their sons (Mike & Dan, in from San Francisco) and daughter-in-law, Amy, last night. Food, drink, family, conversation, laughter, a bit of prayer and a lemon rind-accented granny smith apple tart, its perfect crust glazed with apricot. There were no leftovers.

(Community Matters) As Paul Krugman points out John McCain’s campaign is as much about a third Karl Rove term as it is a third George W. Bush term.