It has certainly not been a smooth ride.

This is a very important year for Democrats, nationally and locally. Many national issues ? like the war, like torture, like the response to Katrina, like Medicare Part D, like the incompetence of the Bush administration ? have a very real impact locally, in our quality of life and what we expect from our country.

It's about the way the brewing cycle goes. So much is tied to the harvest.

Portrait of a Man,

The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.