Who’s going to take care of us baby boomers when we’re old and frail? Who’s going to help us take care of ourselves?
All posts for the month February, 2010
Reform on the backs of the elderly
Posted by bethmacy on February 26, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/02/26/reform-on-the-backs-of-the-elderly/
Separate and unequal
The Roanoke I know and love is surely two cities, a place where the twain rarely meet — except on the inside of a cafeteria cage.
Posted by bethmacy on February 22, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/02/22/separate-and-unequal/
Breakfast with Jon Lee Anderson (Hold the eggs, Boris)
Messy, complicated stories like Nadia’s should leave readers feeling “ragged, sore, raw. Because that’s the way life is,” Anderson said. “Everybody should feel a little bad afterwards.”
Posted by bethmacy on February 11, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/02/11/breakfast-with-jon-lee-anderson-boris-hold-the-eggs/
Our hometown hero in Haiti
Here’s an update on Vanessa “Mama V” Carpenter, the Roanoke County missionary who has “a whole country to mother” in Haiti: She flew to Port-au-Prince on Jan. 18 and has since then been helping the USNS Comfort coordinate surgeries. Judging from her frenetic blog postings, she’s on a souped-up version of her usual overdrive — [...]
Posted by bethmacy on February 2, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/02/02/our-hometown-hero-in-haiti/
Apocalyptic Haiti
The numbers are not yet tallied, but the deaths could top 200,000. Dominican novelist Junot Diaz called the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti nothing short of an apocalypse. “The numbers are abstractions to us,” he said at a Harvard symposium last week. “The U.S. lost 60,000 soldiers in Vietnam, and yet that war haunts [...]
Posted by bethmacy on February 2, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/02/02/apocalyptic-haiti-%e2%80%94-and-an-update-on-our-hometown-hero/
