A woman rushed in, eyes wild, holding her right hand out. I broke one. Nobody talked about the earthquake. Tens of thousands dead and injured. The AIDS support group meets in our big front room.
Community activists talk strategy.
Six newsletters a month go out from here, on everything from women's issues to bagpiping. A year ago, when wildfires threatened the boundaries of our up-scale suburbs, threatened nothing more than the property of the few and absent, the store and the town were buzzing with fear. A forest thinning project was rushed into action before, many believe, appropriate research considerations were taken. To protect huge and empty mausoleums. In the last year, one issue generated the most letters to our local paper.