Tim Weed
The half-wild muse
Domestic cats can be disturbing to those who don't know them. Such people usually call themselves “dog people,” but in reality, they're just afraid.
I can relate to this. Cat lovers posting distracting memes on social media may give the impression that their favorite little pets exist to entertain humanity by making adorable faces accompanied by adorably ungrammatical captions, or to amuse us by leaping up in instinctual terror when confronted by a surreptitiously placed cucumber.
We can honor Kipling’s historical legacy in our community while learning from historical context
Joe Berry is right to point out that Rudyard Kipling was a product of and spokesman for the British Empire, many of the underlying attitudes and assumptions of which we now find - to say the least - extremely objectionable. But if we were to condemn every writer for...
Cuba today, Cuba tomorrow
Fewer than 90 miles from our border is Cuba, a place with special affinity for U.S. culture but cut off from our country diplomatically and economically. Change is underway, though — and beginning to accelerate.
More than a decade ago, I was riding along the Havana Malecén in a white and blue '57 Ford with a four-cylinder Toyota engine. The taxi driver overheard my companions speaking English in the back seat. “Where you from?” he asked in Spanish. “Estados Unidos,” I replied. “I thought...