Sherry Chandler
"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin
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Pick Your Poison
(0)Bobbie Bobbie Ann Mason in the New York Times:
ONE day last summer I was shopping at a natural-foods supermarket. Outside it was 100 degrees or so, but inside it was arctic. The cashier told me she was cold, but the staff wasnt allowed to change the temperature. This sounded familiar. Last winter a friend who was in a sweltering computer chain store asked why the workers didnt turn the heat down. He was told that the thermostat was in Houston.
In Kentucky were used to remote control. Historically, outsiders have dominated the place like a kudzu invasion….
While you’re there, read A Windy Walmart, in which Wal-mart comes to the West Side of Chicago.
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