Comfort Food Eastern North Carolina – 2007 The large sign in the lawn in front of the old red brick building read: “U.S. MARINE CORPS, CAMP ELIZABETH BRIG. NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED.” I stopped the car right in front of it, rolled down the window, slipped the digital camera from my pocket and took a couple … Continue reading More Resistance Vacation Reading: Comfort Food – A Story
Keeping the ‘Rule of Law’ Alive / Politics / By Gwynne Dyer 19 March 2025 Last Tuesday [March 18 2025)] there was a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, that may have changed the course of history. When the vote came out ‘Yes’, you could feel the tectonic plates shift. … Continue reading Germany voted to rearm—Did the Earth Move? Gwynne Dyer Says Yes
Ukraine: Maybe a short cease-fire, maybe not By Gwynne Dyer – Mar 14, 2025 What’s hard to keep in mind, with all the hype that’s flying around, is that there’s no particular reason for either side in the Ukraine war to want a cease-fire right now, let alone a full peace settlement. The only … Continue reading Do Ukraine’s Ceasefire Hopes Hang on Trump’s Nobel Fever Dreams?
A year ago last Saturday, the Friends Meeting I’m part of took a big step, for us: we rented a booth at the Alamance Pride Festival, held in a large park in downtown Burlington NC. Outwardly, our booth was not particularly eye-catching. Amid the fluttering of a thousand floating rainbows, the yellow table banner we … Continue reading The Shadow at the Pride Festival
