Dear Girls, You'd better go quick. It isn't going to be there forever, I'm afraid. It's a nice thought to think that the roads we travel and the countryside we bask in will be around for your daughters and their daughters, but it's not looking very likely.
Times are good, they say.
Business is booming. When you look in the eyes of a woman buying clothes for her kids at a small town Wall-Mart in eastern Tennessee, you wonder what other lies we're being fed. When the powers that be choose to allow the homogenization of our lifestyle and our lives, all people are left with are the choices that someone in some big office building far far away makes for them. And the mega-stores are only one part of the problem. The hillside above Kate's house where we used to play when we were little is now blighted with fashionable new homes on 3 acre lots with a view.