I tell the kids that this is an old-fashioned version of an MSN Messenger system.

I like this table because there's a discussion between generations. For kids it's very special to see a toaster like this. And for their grandparents, it's a great memory.

It's completely autonomous. It never needs batteries.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

There's no sustenance in the past.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.