My husband has been reading a book on the history of Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was published in 1949, and Don’s name appears on the flyleaf in the large, round Palmer-method hand of someone who had just learned to write script at Laura Ingalls Wilder School (no kidding). The other day he read aloud …
The Nation of 17 May carried a piece about the shortcomings of the new South Africa. The article seems well-informed and mostly reasonable, and some (but not all) of the shortcomings seem short indeed. But my heart sank when I saw it. It’s not that I thought post-apartheid South Africa was heaven on earth, it’s …