Kelly Salasin

Category: on our Nation

  • better than chocolate-America the Beautiful & J.T.

    For a middle aged woman like me, it doesn’t get much better than James Taylor singing American the Beautiful at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.  It’s up there with chocolate and chardonnay, an afternoon on the Seine and under the covers with my lover. The simple pleasures. Acoustic. Mellow. Sweet. Oh, beautiful, for spacious…

  • The Broken-Hearted People of the World Agree

    “There is a field out beyond right doing and wrong doing, I’ll meet you there.” ~Rumi There’s been a lot of debating, especially on Facebook, but then twenty-seven or forty-eight or ninety-two heated comments later, someone trips over the fact that we essentially agree. I’ve seen it happen again and again–minds so tattered from the…