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Mother’s China
After my mother, Adele Hutchins, died in mid-December I made a photograph of her china the wallpaper on my cell phone. The fluted silver platter and two ivory tea cups with gold rims and roses appealed to my sense of beauty. So now they haunt me. Why? They are the level of comfortable living I [...]
Ah, spirit and sex
We live at a time in postmodernity in which the themes of past eras have found their way back into our collective consciousness. Viral epidemics and pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and bird flu have replaced bacterial plagues. Inverted totalitarianism has replaced imperialism. Multi/transnational corporations have replaced empires. Wars on Islamic extremism have replaced [...]
Ancestors & Archives
I began keeping a diary in 1963, the same year my mom took me downtown to hear Martin Luther King’s magnificent speech. A natural historian, I love to document events and cherish others who do so.