On an early Sunday morning in 1999 we went down into the Paris subway to begin the next leg of our trip – Normandy and the D-Day beaches.
Since it was very early in the morning there weren’t many people in the subway, and it caught our attention when we heard American voices?
“Where are you from,” we asked them.
“We’re from Las Vegas; what about you?” Continue reading Conversation in Paris
Remember when only sailors had tattoos?
It wasn’t that long ago that you found tattoos the sole expression of the military and social rebels. But as musicians and actors began embracing tattoo art, it became more common to see men and women turning their skin into a canvas.
Now there is a television show called Miami/LA Ink which adds to the respectability of using the body for an art display. It’s not unusual to see tattoo parlors in the mainstream of commerce. But culture wars had to be fought to bring tattooing into common practice.
We’ve seen similar wars before. Continue reading Culture Wars
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