Tag: the USA

• October 27, 2025

  “I never saw my mother”

  In surely one of the most moving passages ever written in the English language, former US slave Frederick Douglass penned words that remind me of something vitally important. ‘I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life, and each of these times was in very short duration,…
• August 18, 2025

  “The Snowflake Effect: How the Self-Esteem Movement Ruined a Generation”

  Just reading the contents page, I had the feeling this could be a good read and I wasn’t disappointed. In this punchy little book, Trey Willis makes logical, well-researched and largely convincing arguments for why his own Generation Y is essentially selfish, especially when compared to previous generations of North Americans. He looks at popular…
• June 8, 2025

  Two Scavengers in a Truck (with new Catalan translation)

  [A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti] At the stoplight waiting for the lightnine a.m. downtown San Franciscoa bright yellow garbage truckwith two garbagemen in red plastic blazersstanding on the back stoopone on each side hanging onand looking down intoan elegant open Mercedeswith an elegant couple in itThe manin a hip three-piece linen suitwith shoulder-length blond hair…