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POSTCARDS FROM A SANDY PLACE #1 – Kuwaiti Bus Drivers
Today is the dawn of a new column day here at TLRG.com. One of my very best friends and the gal who has the most intricate knowlegde of military weaponry, MK, just arrived to serve a year’s tour of duty in a sandy land far, far away. She’s the toughest, baddest girl I know and…
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Let It Snow!
Comic Chris Rock often exorts that cough-stopper Robitussin is the elixir for all that ails us as humans. I happen to think the same of snow. Having just trudged in from the artic circle that is my neighborhood, I could not be happier. Eight inches really is all a girl needs! Perhaps it’s my childhood…
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Playing Russian Roulette
Standing at the Berlin Wall in the twilight of his second term, a defiant Ronald Reagan shouted for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to “Seek liberalization..open this gate..tear down this wall.” With the crumbling of the wall in ’89, the subsequent pimping of its grafittied pieces in gift shops around the globe and the inevitable crumbling…
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Food for Thought
Wise words from the late, great Shirley Chisholm “When I ran for Congress, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black.” After all, “men are men.”
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London Calling
Classic literature sings the boho rapture of the City of Light’s left bank, but for me the real gem of the Continent is London’s jolly ol’ South Bank. Brimming with the newness of Prius car seats, this hip little slice of heaven has it all! An unparelled 360 degree riverside view of buildings both ancient…