Still Waiting to Exhale

cannabisLast fall our neighbors to the south, Oregon and Washington State, voted during a referendum to decriminalize marijuana. Since November both have moved forward on making it happen. What seems odd is that this is in the face of the substance still being illegal under federal law. Continue reading

777 Steps and the Burmese Nats

PoinsiettaI was listening to a radio interview this morning with a writer whose name I never got. What did get my attention was the phrase uttered by either writer or interviewer “one writes to make sense of things”. Maybe. Worth a try perhaps. Whatever, it won’t be an easy task for me to make sense of my trip to Burma this past January/February, or more to the point, to make sense of the affect Burma had on me. Continue reading