My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.

Our new Access connections software lets [users] identify and switch seamlessly to the best network connection available.

It's our connection to the Chesapeake Bay that makes us special. You couldn't do this in Indianapolis.

We tried to use music and drama -- theater as well as science -- to achieve that connection.

And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas--he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.

I don't hold that against them. Most of them aren't doing their laundry, either.