Ye Know Not What Ye Ask! By Teri Ong While we have been away, I am sure that Congress has been working hard on “the health care crisis.” Just before we came over, the Senate had cleared the way for debate on some version of a national health care plan. While we have been in a country that has a nationalized health care system, I have become more and more convinced that if we get what we are collectively asking for, we won’t like it. Life is inherently risky. There is almost nothing we can do in a day that […]

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Books and Covers by Teri Ong London is a very old city, and for some time it has been one of the most populous in the world. The housing is antiquated and very dense. Rows of houses will sometimes have strange gaps in them that look like the smile of Irish hurling teams– that is to say, minus random teeth. The houses on either side of the gap are kept from collapse by ingenious arrangements of braces and scaffolding. Then in the gap will grow a new tooth, looking just like the old one on the outside, but sleek and […]

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Global Perspectives by Teri Ong I haven’t had ten minutes for writing in the past three weeks. The week before Thanksgiving was taken up in a whirlwind of rehearsals, final classes, concerts and last music lessons of our “term.” Then there was a day of laundry and packing, the Lord’s Day, and an early Thanksgiving celebration with the gathered family, and off to London for two weeks with our eager study group. In typical American tourist fashion we have gone non-stop from morning until bedtime. But in a-typical fashion we have avoided Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum, the London Dungeon, the […]

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