Today as our Flashback Friday series continues, we go back to June 7, 2015. Rereading this post I realize how much I have learned since then about Staufen and the area. In 2015 it never occurred to me that within a couple of years I would be living in a village an hour’s walk from […]
I was planning on a reflective piece today, to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Normandy landings in the Second World War. I was going to reflect on my childhood, watch the veterans of the Great War age. Now, the youngest those who fought in that second global conflict are almost a century old. Soon […]
The last “guilty” verdict had barely been read out on Thursday before Donald Trump sent me an email asking me for money. He says he is a political prisoner and that his trial was rigged. Funny how everything that doesn’t go his way is rigged. He insists he did nothing wrong. The jury that heard […]
On Friday’s this year we are revisiting the past, with today’s offering coming from May 31, 2017. I have spent most of May overseas, and am glad to be home at last. Traveling meant that I missed the annual Tulip Festival in Ottawa, which is one of the highlights of the year. It has been […]
It’s Sunday, I thought perhaps I should share something spiritual. This quote, author unknown, was sent to me by a friend in the U.K. I did indeed find it comforting. I hope you do too.
On Friday we look at posts from past years. Today we return to the post from May 24, 2019. A photo essay for you today. Just when you were expecting me to show you more ruined temples on top of Athens’ most famous hill, I turn the camera in the other direction. All I have […]
Today’s post comes from May 17, 2016. Looking through some old photos, I noticed this one that I took while on vacation in Maine in 2008. This was downtown Portland, right on the waterfront. I have to wonder about whether the owners of the parking space had ever followed through on their threat to the […]
Moral of the story is to take God at his word.
Flashback Friday, and we revisit May 10, 2015. I was cleaning up some computer files and came across the picture below. If you have any introverts in your life (and most of us do) this can be a helpful guide to keeping them happy and healthy. Reading those over in 2024, I am struck by […]
Memories fade, but this is ridiculous. I’ve been bitten yet again by a mobile German holiday. In 2018 there were a few mornings when I headed to the grocery store, only to find it closed for a holiday I wasn’t aware of. In Canada stores post holiday hours a week or so beforehand. In Germany […]
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