Line by Line

Line by Line

Regular readers of this blog, who are accustomed to receiving email notifications each time a new segment appears, don’t need to be told that things went a bit awry last time we posted. Neither the cause of the glitch nor the means to correct it was easy to determine....
July 4

July 4

Even under “usual” circumstances or a “typical” year – which no one would argue that this one is – the Fourth of July is distinguished in several ways from other holidays that we Americans share. For one thing, it is, after all, one of the few purely American...
Learning from the Flowers

Learning from the Flowers

Whether they are annuals or perennials, if we pay attention to them the flowers keep us — pardon the pun — grounded. As we walk or drive down the streets of our home towns or just look out the windows of our homes, the flowers not only brighten our...

Social Justice Matters

  These present days in America are disturbing, jarring, unprecedented. They can drive us to despair or they can call us to remember and act on familiar words and phrases penned centuries ago: “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” “with liberty and...
Standing Together. Working Together.

Standing Together. Working Together.

We have been deliberate in the choice of a title for this blog post …but it was not a difficult one to come up with. Over the course of the past several days we have seen those of you on the front lines of delivering critical nutrition services to...