I’m still cleaning up my phone and finding posts I never got around to sharing with you. This one is, I think, a couple of years old. People wear their pride on their chests. But why in Germany is that pride always in English? I hadn’t processed this before, but my brain had somehow absorbed […]
If Donald Trump hasn’t tweeted that, just wait for it. These guys want to run a country? More than 12 hours after results should have been made official, no-one knows who won Tuesday’s Democratic Party Iowa caucuses. The CNN headline described it as “chaos and confusion.” I won’t launch into a list of what went […]
It may have been the centre of the political universe, but I would be hard-pressed to find Iowa on a map. I wonder if Americans have the same problem? Once every four years the state makes headlines, as politically interested individual “caucus” to determine who they want to be president. For some candidates it is […]
I know that everything I do online is being watched by someone. That is just part of modern life, and I am too lazy to make myself harder to track. After all, I have nothing to hide. Sometimes though I do wonder about the brainpower of those following me around the internet. Their actions don’t […]
I’ve suddenly realized that I’ve missed the hype. I had to look up who was playing in the Super Bowl today. Not that it matters. I’m not likely to stay up for most of the night to watch the American football championship. I don’t care enough about the game, and I suspect most Americans would […]
Did the sun rise this morning? I guess Brexit wasn’t so catastrophic after all. The United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union, though the details of the divorce may not be finalized until the end of 2020. Until then I expect there will be a certain sense of uncertainty. My guess […]
I was tired. I needed new running shoes. It was hot. All in all, it was a bad combination, and I left the market feeling I had been ripped off. I paid too much for the shoes. It was the spring of 1990, and the market was Waterside in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. We had […]
One of the big differences between Canada and the United States is the attitude towards personal firearms. I don’t know if two nations with so much in common could be farther apart than on this issue. Americans think it is a constitutional right to “bear arms” and woe betide anyone who tries to take away […]
One of the things I like about being a blogger is the opportunities it presents to learn something new. As evidenced by the subject of today’s post. I expect to learn something new when I travel. That’s part of the reason for going some place you haven’t been before. With a love of history and […]
I’m back in Germany, where if there was a winter of 2019-20 it is long gone. It was minus nine Celsius when we boarded the plane in Ottawa, plus 13 when we arrived in Basel Switzerland (the closest airport) too many hours later. Winter was late arriving in Canada – I was wondering at […]
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