Global education (Candy Store, part II)

“You two examining how her European ancestors decimated yours? … Fantastic!”

Kid in a brain-candy store

Except for the weather, being here is like getting a massage: It’s incredible, but there’s always this nagging feeling that reality is around the corner and this too, alas, shall pass.

How to help Haiti via a Roanoke-based mission. . .

Mama V told my Roanoke Times colleague Matt Chittum this morning that at least one of her three clinics collapsed in yesterday’s earthquake. “It’s like she’s got a whole country to mother,” one doctor said.

On silence, jumpy herons and knead-free bread

It’s holey and wondrous — perfect for the pooling of butter — not unlike ciabatta, only without a lot of effort.

In praise of Evelyn Coke

She died last August due to complications from a serious bedsore, the kind she had been once so good at tending.

Another sad parting. . .

“There’ll be just one more story,” she told me. “The last one.”

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.