Big City Beat
I wrote this story for my friend Hope Strong, the former editor-in-chief of the Teton Valley News in Driggs, Idaho. He asked me for a letter from the big city.
A letter from San Francisco
The other day in San Francisco, on the Fulton 5 municipal bus line, a young black man got on board and hip-rolled his way down the aisle. He was wearing what a lot of adolescents wear these days: pants so big and billowy they could have been hiding a VW beetle inside each leg and a sports jersey underneath a pullover. He had a blue LA Lakers hat on his head, the bill of which was turned sideways in the style that is the style, know what I’m sayin’? continue reading…
