Archive for May 31st, 2008
Adventures in Paradise
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The rain drives the tourists off the sidewalks, diminishes the Pacific to a neighbourly size, and melts all my plans like ice cream. I open the paper and read a wandering, questing letter about the ‘beautiful, innocent people of Vanuatu‘, and ache a little because it’s so nearly true. In the wall-high mirror, a woman [...]