The Ugly American

I was “away from home” ever so briefly a week or so back. The colleagues I was due to meet and work with my first full morning abroad had yet to arrive, and given the beauty of the spring morning, I went out for a brief walk. As I often do when traveling, I was [...]

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Postcards from Europe

I’m reading Rick Steves’ book as I await my hop to Wien.   My favorite quote this far is from a Dutch couple: “GOD created all the world.  It was.marvelous.  But France..it was just too perfect, so he put in the French to balance things out. …and Canada could have had it all: British culture, French.cuisine, [...]

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Where am I to go?

Somewhere in a lonely hotel room There’s a guy starting to realize That eternal fate has turned it’s back on him. It’s 2am…. It’s 2 am The fear is gone I’m sitting here waiting… Maybe my connection Is tired of taking chances Yeah, there’s a storm on the loose Sirens in my head Wrapped up [...]

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Strata

Did I mention that Daughter-chan returned last week? If I did, let me add that she brought me some sand from various beaches on multiple Isles/continents. Why would she carry little bags of sand all around the world, you might ask? Well, maybe because her father is strange, and she knew he cared. You see, [...]

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The nut does not fall far from the tree

Elder daughter walked into the kitchen tonight holding a large box. “Hey, Hank, what’s in the box?”, I wondered. Perhaps, a dead cat? Sorry, wrong story, and I digress. No, her box contains money and momentos from days now past spent on the other side of the world. It was great to see her unpack [...]

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I feel positively global, without leaving home

Take that, Hannah Bingham…

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Something smells fishy

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own [...]

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Dialed up; dialed in.

Where to start? That’s a tough one. His name is Bernhard. I’ll start there, and we’ll see where it finishes. Proverbs 19:21: Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. We’ve established earlier on FB (when I was too tired to put any of this down) that [...]

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Go ahead; I can take it…

As a few acquaintances of mine already know, I am leaving on a business trip soon, and it takes me across some water, and a border or two. Accordingly, those with loved ones across the same borders have asked me to deliver a package. Make that, two packages. Actually, it is now three packages, and [...]

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Communicating via the Post

“Mail; It was called mail” said the elder Fox. “Envelopes; stamps; you know, I think I’ve heard of it…” replied the younger Fox. That’s Fox, Joe Fox, for those of you boning up on your movie trivia. In the real world, once upon a time, “The Post”, aka mail, was the only way to communicate. [...]

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