Author: ps pirro

• 666 Fifth Avenue

  They call it “real estate” but beyond a certain point there’s nothing real about it. It’s just money in search of a place to land.…

• Parkland

  Are they tributes, these students, and the ones that came before? Blood sacrifice to the gods? Are they offered to placate, does their slaughter keep…

• Mermaid Avenue

  Driving home after a long day, listening to Billy Bragg (and those enchanting backing vocals from Natalie Merchant.) Mermaid Avenue is twenty years old this year.…

• Preppers

  It took longer than any of us expected, our children were older than we were and theirs were older still. I remember the fortune in…

• Try This, Try That

  Rather than thinking endlessly about what might work and trying this and trying that, in a kind of trial-and-error method, perhaps we should try looking…

• Transition

  When contemplating change, it’s tempting to try to think things through. Make a list, check it twice. Consider all the factors, all the contingencies and…

• God on Sunday

  “In the beginning Man created God, and in the image of Man created He him.” Ian Anderson, “Aqualung” They lost me at the personification. I…

• February 2.0

  Snow crusted garden, last year’s coneflower grey as old bones, q-tipped and stiff in the wind, the neighborhood scoundrel cat passes through the damp and molder…

• Food Rules

  In a recent post that touches on food and religious evangelism and the folly of demanding adherence to the one true way, John Michael Greer writes:…

• Fair Trade

  One of my customers paid for her lunch today with a bunch of dried mint from her garden, a jar of homemade bread & butter…