Beth L Barnett
Pinky says: What Goes Around Comes Around?
Sixty years ago there was a cry for urban housing for people who lived in squalid conditions in the center city of St. Louis, the city in which I grew up. A housing project based on the Modernist concepts… Continue reading
Missouri Rivers
As we confidently paddled our canoe down the Meramac River, I in the stern and my husband in the bow, we happened to pass under the limb of an overhanging tree. Just at that moment, a long, skinny snake dropped… Continue reading
Mollie
Yesterday my friend Mollie turned 94.
She greeted her many friends, seated in the living room of her fashionable retirement home and surrounded by her loving family. Mollie looked beautiful; eyes sparkling, bright smile, makeup perfect and as always, fashionably… Continue reading
Out of Context
Poor Shirley Sherrod. There she stood in front of a local NAACP gathering telling them how she’d overcome her prejudice against white farmers when, with the stroke of his computer key, Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger, took the… Continue reading
Pinky Kase writes about Peter the Great Equestrian Statue
Can you imagine what it must have been like to be 6 feet 8 inches tall, head of the Romanov dynasty and czar of all the Russias? Peter the Great, so named by himself, was able during his reign… Continue reading
