I was at this local wine-tasting thing in my small community of the Key Peninsula the other day when the subject of politics came up. Seems to happen whenever enough wine has been tasted anywhere these days.
After some verbal shoving matches, someone declared they would not vote in the mid-term elections. “A pox on both your parties,” or some such.
One among us said she’d recently completed a solo motorcycle trip from Maine to Texas and commented on how odd it was to visit 13 states with cities called Fayetteville or Lafayette. The country might not be united, she said, but all those cities and towns with the same name — that meant something, didn’t it?
I...
I was at this local wine-tasting thing in my small community of the Key Peninsula the other day when the subject of politics came up. Seems to happen whenever enough wine has been tasted anywhere these days.
After some verbal shoving matches, someone declared they would not vote in the mid-term elections. “A pox on both your parties,” or some such.
One among us said she’d recently completed a solo motorcycle trip from Maine to Texas and commented on how odd it was to visit 13 states with cities called Fayetteville or Lafayette. The country might not be united, she said, but all those cities and towns with the same name — that meant something, didn’t it?
I...