The plastic lizard must be moving by itself. Ava sometimes found it facing an entirely different direction on the other side of its ceramic pot. A few times in recent months, she noticed it on the floor near the white wicker plant stand. The first time, she’d assumed the dog had knocked it off with his tail, and she put it back, carefully placing it so its nose poked out of the ancient fern. Today the lizard was on the floor, and this time pretty far away from the plant s

A Platform of Truth: transcripts from selected documentary interviews . Abigail Levy, The Candidate I decided to run on a whim. I was fed up with everything I heard on the news. I’d worked, I’d raised our kids, now I had time to do something useful on a bigger scale — if that doesn’t sound too naive. Nancy Clarkson, The Candidate’s Friend You know, most people get angry at the way politics doesn’t work, and then they don’t do anything about it. They sign some petit

It started with the dinosaurs and the earthquake. It started with the dinosaurs and the earthquake. Actually, it started when I brought home a new insert for our Japanese lamp. Its wooden frame held squares of rice paper — small screens that projected cut-out shapes of sailboats, spaceships or, in our case, colorful trains moving in circles around the lamp’s center wire. I removed the train insert and lowered a new cylinder. Silhouettes of turquoise, magenta and yellow di