Karen and I shared a salad for our 20th anniversary lunch out. 20 years ago it would have been lots of food and desert. In 30 years will we be sharing our dentures for lunch? I would like to dare
I haven’t put out a special bulletin in years, but I saw that my notes on this subject were piling up fast and people are asking me what I make of all this. Since this whole thing started, I’ve been
We traveled for nearly 6 weeks this summer and silly me thought it would be good to start the trip with all new shoes for me and the kids. All the shoes got messed up after a week and I
There is a lot in this posting but if you are as bored as I am during this endless holiday weekend, you’ll enjoy the read. It’s a nice mix of stuff of all sorts collected over the past 3 months
I didn’t know this was a selling point for Global Thoughts but at least these posts don’t expire after 24 hours. They are like frequent flyer points that keep building up. I don’t know why Easter is so special on
During the past month or so, I have had 3 airline flights cancelled on me, two of them while on the plane. That was for 3 trips, meaning that none of my trips happened on the day they were scheduled.
Imagine you are playing the game show “Match Game” and Gene Rayburn asks you: The New York City Department of Education is SOOO DUMB…” HOW DUMB IS IT? Well, they called me on the telephone asking me to update my
I’m walking down this street that is usually filled with homeless people up against the sides of buildings and someone sets up a radio blasting NPR NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. So instead of some funky music I’m hearing about some meeting
This posting has various vignettes at the top, serious discussion about global troublespots later on, and links to travel notes about recent trips to Iceland and Ireland at the end of this posting. One Sunday, at the last minute, I
Iceland is a country of 350,000 people that punches above its weight. It’s got some beautiful architecture, a diverse population because it is a Schengen country within the EU (and which helps it avoid staffing shortages in the tourist industry
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