But My Dad Also Was A Remarkable

When You Walk With Someone, Something Unspoken Happens. Either You Match Their Pace Or They Match Yours.

So Much Of Life, It Seems To Me, Is Determined By Pure Randomness.

I Couldn't Adjust To The Racism In Florida. It Was So Blatant... I Had Never Been So Described As Florida Described Me.

I Always Wanted To Be Someone Better The Next Day Than I Was The Day Before.

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came