Tag Archives: Winston Churchill

I’m Not A Doctor…

March 16, 2022 · by · in Leadership, World Affairs · 5 Comments

Back in the 1980s there was a television ad, for cough syrup, I think, featuring an actor who said “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on television.” It was as if TV conveyed authority and expertise.  We know it doesn’t. If it did, reality television star Donald Trump would have done a much […]

The Building Project

January 5, 2020 · by · in Society, Travel · Leave a comment

This blog was essentially born as I wrestled with some thoughts during a European vacation in the summer of 2014. This post, from October of that year, shows some of those thoughts, and was the seventh most viewed of 2019.  At the end of the First World War, Winston Churchill suggested that the town of […]

An Anniversary Somewhat Forgotten

October 31, 2019 · by · in Society, Travel, World Affairs · Leave a comment

It ended seventy-nine years ago today, though they probably didn’t know it was the last day. They expected the bombers back to continue the Battle of Britain. As they had every day since July 10, 1940, Nazi Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe, had bombed British targets. Unprepared for war, the few fighter pilots of the […]