Her name was Arline. She was my father’s mother. She died in 1949 when my father was 16. We knew very little about her growing up. In the early 1980’s, after my grandfather died, a letter arrived at the house from my father’s aunt Marie who was six years younger than her sister. My parents were […]
Watch her presence closely. It’s all surface cute, this woman Sara Palin, who’s currently campaigning for vice president. Her posture is that she’s right off Main St. America. But the average person walking down Main St. differs from her on two important ways. They have much less ambition and much more humility. The average person, […]