Who Says The Portuguese Aren’t Creative?
dated 2009-03-08 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
Who Says The Portuguese Aren’t Creative?
My friend Sally says the Louvre contains no Portuguese painters ; only one Portuguese author has won the Nobel prize ( he lives in Spain); and few Portuguese ever make their way into symphony halls, designer runways, Amazon’s top ten or music’s greatest artists. But Sally, I’ve turned up an area where the locals do shine: in creating their own illegal parking places. Let’s look, and you, readers, c ...
48 Hours
dated 2009-03-24 | posted in columns | topic Charity | permanent link
For 48 brief hours last weekend Don and I put aside all talk of the Dow, the dollar, AIG, and the IMF. Instead we gave all of our attention to our God children Tomás and Sandra (not their real names.)
I can’t conceive of growing up without my parents. They gave me love, time, a spectacular education and a structure for my personal and spiritual life. But what would I have done without them? The question, for me, is unthinkable. But for the 61 c ...