Mary Ann van Hartesveldt, Fort Valley GA, USA
The most recent Challenger was your best ever.
Dennis Dolbear’s account of his Katrina ordeal was eloquent and moving.
Mike Resnick’s stories of third world bathrooms remind me of one of my own. At age 19 I visited Nigeria’s University of Ife with a student group. The architect who designed the girls’ dorm had put in a latticework of bricks on one side of the bathroom, but no other screens. At night the lights attracted thousands of lovely African moths followed by scores of unlovely African spiders, toads, lizards and snakes. It looked like an Indiana Jones movie. We had sentries posted, saying things like, “Sue, you’ve got a toad approaching your feet. Mary, watch that spider on the ceiling over you. Jane, snake! Run!”
Your editorial about what liberals should do was great. As chair of the Peach County Democratic Party I’d like permission to distribute it to my executive committee members. [Of course.] One small quibble: political correctness. My high school driver’s ed teacher ended his explanation of his grading policy with “and of course anybody kills a nigger gets an automatic ‘A’.” It was the political correctness movement that made such speech unacceptable now, and rightly so.
Finally, thanks for giving Fred and me a chance to know Cindy Snowden.
Dennis Dolbear’s account of his Katrina ordeal was eloquent and moving.
Mike Resnick’s stories of third world bathrooms remind me of one of my own. At age 19 I visited Nigeria’s University of Ife with a student group. The architect who designed the girls’ dorm had put in a latticework of bricks on one side of the bathroom, but no other screens. At night the lights attracted thousands of lovely African moths followed by scores of unlovely African spiders, toads, lizards and snakes. It looked like an Indiana Jones movie. We had sentries posted, saying things like, “Sue, you’ve got a toad approaching your feet. Mary, watch that spider on the ceiling over you. Jane, snake! Run!”
Your editorial about what liberals should do was great. As chair of the Peach County Democratic Party I’d like permission to distribute it to my executive committee members. [Of course.] One small quibble: political correctness. My high school driver’s ed teacher ended his explanation of his grading policy with “and of course anybody kills a nigger gets an automatic ‘A’.” It was the political correctness movement that made such speech unacceptable now, and rightly so.
Finally, thanks for giving Fred and me a chance to know Cindy Snowden.
You and Fred (your husband) were never anything but kind to Cynthia, inviting her (and me) into your home during Hurricane Georges, allowing her to call and bend your ear whenever she wanted, exchanging Christmas cards, taking her to lunch when you visited New Orleans – being her friend. Phil Dick once said that the true measure of what it means to be human is kindness. Through your kindness to Cindy you proved what I’ve always known: that you are a full and great human being.
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