In the Dark Ages when I was in high school, a local businessman opened a restaurant called “Rosa’s Café” in Odessa. Since Mexican restaurants are ubiquitous (indeed, sometimes it’s difficult to find anything that is neither a chain nor Tex-Mex),… Read More ›
Month: July 2012
The N-word, pets, and do the British get a pass?
My husband and I were recently watching the move “The Dam Busters” on Netflix. This is the story of the brave men of the RAF, who using a radically new and for the most part untried method, bombed dam sites… Read More ›
A Stranger in an Undiscovered Country
justpaperskater and I exchange stories by giving each other a word which is the seed for the next correspondence. This is my response to her choice of “Asians.” *** I was about 12 when I first visited a “Chinatown.” It… Read More ›