This is the first in a weekly compilation of the “Best of the View.” Once a week I will send a selection of what I feel truly shows the excellence of the MOLI View. This week I have included:

Arts and Entertainment


Goin' Pro
By Wendy Case/MOLI
Singing prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupre "came across" in the Mayflower. Now she wants to get paid.

Life and Love


Wild at Heart
By Evelyn McDonnell/MOLI
The other day, for his fifth birthday, I took my son Cole to the Miami Metrozoo. We make this trip at least once a year together. The first time we were there, he was barely walking, but he toddled right up to the big black pot-bellied pig at the petting zoo and looked straight in its hairy face, in love. Another time, he was wooed by a cockatoo on a trainer's arm. This year, he had a mystic experience with a one-eyed turkey.


Sad Dad
By Neal Pollack & Erika Schickel/MOLI
Here's something about which I'm sure we're both well-qualified to talk: depression. I've suffered from it my whole life, and while it's mostly under control with various drugs now, it still rears its head. Do you think about this stuff in regard to your children? Do you talk with them about depression? Any clue to how to guide them through its dangerous shoals?


Ricochet: Will Return
By Juliana Luecking/MOLI
In a hospital room for hours, waiting for something to change, I am impatient to know the future. My mother sleeps upright in the bed, her only expression a little snore now and then. I feel bottled up, I pace the room, I search out the window for some indication that this dull moment will pass and a better one will come.

Business


Stock Villains
By Robert Levine/MOLI
In high school, they told us that smoking pot will turn you into an unhealthy, unemployed bum. But they never warned us that it could endanger the American economy. But that's exactly the result it seems to have had on former Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne, who the Wall Street Journal reported last year was playing bridge and blazing up as two of his company's hedge funds collapsed.

Sports and Fitness


Farewell, Fraught Father
By Donnell Alexander/MOLI
In the bathroom mirror, it hit me that now there's less pure expression of the Alexander look. Our resemblance had grown by the year.

Travel


Running on Tokyo Time
By Cathay Che/MOLI
By 5 pm of my first day of walking Tokyo's streets, I started to understand why so many people wear surgical face masks. I felt filthy; my feet, even in the most comfortable shoes I own, felt like lead weights; and I was in desperate need of an oxygen tank or other cleansing and energizing infusion. Luckily, a disco nap for an hour didn't prevent me from hitting one last store (shops stay open until 8 pm daily since shopping is Tokyo's main event): RagTag, six floors of designer resale.

Worthy Causes


Expert Tips: How to Keep an Archive
By Celeste Fraser Delgado/MOLI
This month the Rhythm Foundation, a nonprofit that brings the very best music from around the world to Miami, celebrates its 20th anniversary with an unusual twist: a retrospective exhibition at the CIFO Art Space. Do-Gooder is all for seeing popular music treated as art — but what really impresses us is that a modestly sized nonprofit has managed to keep such an extensive archive. We asked Rhythm Foundation director Laura Quinlan for tips on safeguarding a nonprofit legacy.

Thanks!
Jenny