Author: Nanette

Hopefully I’m not the only one who drops in at the trib and catches a brief glimpse of this or that happening… while mostly not having any idea at all of what it is about. Probably there are others with even less of...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] “One hot, dusty day in June, Col. Ted Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at a military base near the Baghdad airport, a single gunshot wound to the head.” …is how the Los...

I’ve asked this question a couple of times in comments of other diaries… I’ll get an occasional “4”, but no answers. I think people think it’s a rhetorical question, but it’s not....

I wrote this (slightly edited) during this past winter, and after days of triple digit temperatures here, with no relief in sight, was moved to drag it out again because for some reason it makes me feel cooler, probably because...

Caught in the spotlight of history, set on the stage of a very public event, Marie Fatayi-Williams, the mother of Anthony Fatayi-Williams, 26 and missing since Thursday, appeals for news of her son. Her words are a mixture of...