What Was I Thinking I am an optimist. I think it is realistic to strive to eliminate extreme poverty in the world and over time provide all of humanity with the opportunity for a prosperous life. So w...Read More
What Was I Thinking About Israel Nowadays most of our politics is about what outrage President Trump has perpetrated this week. The national press has shown itself to be extremely biased against the p...Read More
WWIT What Was I Thinking About Mass Shootings Last week there were two shooting incidents in the US that made headlines, and required political responses. The shootings were horrible young white men u...Read More
In 1969 I was in Vietnam making the world safe for democracy so I was out of town when Neal Armstrong took that first step. But that was the only year that I ever consistently kept a diary. (auto corr...Read More
Around July 4 we were in Lyon for the Women’s World Cup Football. And our friends George and Michelle F. had told us about the Food Center in Lyon that they had loved. Nurit and I visited on our...Read More
The key to happiness is low expectations. The keys of a life are even more prosaic. These are the keys that I found in Jack’s desk and workshop when we cleared out his possessions after his deat...Read More
It was sad to see the ashes of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was even sadder to see the graffiti all over Paris. It looks like the French have surrendered to this scourge of our times. It makes me very sad...Read More
Why are you doing that? Because I have FoMO. What? You know Fear of Missing Out. FoMO is the acronym for a pretty common reason we do lots of things. Thanks and a hat tip to Debbie F for this very u...Read More
Pleasant surprises are the spice of life. On our tour in Normandy with Country Walkers we had several extremely pleasant surprises. One was on the second day when they they told us in the briefing tha...Read More