Here in our interesting nation
I wonder if a culture is more alike, the people more linked, more bonded somehow in nations that are smaller than the United States. I’ve been pondering that recently. I was raised in a village in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. I never even knew we had a culture. I knew we had family traditions, the way we observed key holidays, birthdays, the evening family prayer routine. I knew my parents’ expectations of me. Good grades in school, good manners, respect for ad
