Stones from the Creek

Yesterday I was reading a twenty-year old article in the Mexican journal  Estudios Sociológicos titled "La huelga de Cananea 1906. Una ...

It is now almost fifty years since I visited Israel with my Jewish youth group. I sometimes feel as though I have spent all that time comi...

The other day I saw this photo of an acoustic band rehearsing posted on Facebook. It is from 1969 or 1970 and I am the fellow in the white...

On November 25, 1960, the women known as the Mariposas - Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal - were stopped on a mountain road and ass...

Four weeks ago my mom phoned from her nursing home to tell me that my dad was refusing to eat. I think she wanted me to call him and tell hi...

This morning I am thinking about fire and flood, earthquake and hurricane, war and genocide, impunity and extrajudicial murder. The new mo...

Act II of the Rogers and Hammerstein 1943 classic Oklahoma! opens with the song "The Farmer and the Cowman."  The song highlights ...