Book Read: The Opium War
The Opium War By Julia Lovell The first half of this book is an excellent telling of the details of the Opium War...
Words Seldom Seen: Dudgeon
Dudgeon Noun: A feeling of offense or deep resentment. Bordering on anger. Example: After the poor service he was...
Oregon Travel
It was the height of the short tourist season on the Oregon Coast when we visited. We stayed by the bridge in Newport...
WWIT about Iran Attacking Saudi Arabia
WWIT Economic Sanctions are Acts of War The USA is imposing economic sanctions on Iran as a response to this weeks...
Woodstock
"It is fifty years after Woodstock and pop music today is about as rebellious as a golf sweater." from an editorial in...
Anger
"Getting angry is a weakness." Adapted from a Marcus Aurelius quote in The Daily Stoic by Holiday and...
The New
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Alexander Pope English Poet...
Book Read: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Big Rock Candy Mountain By Wallace Stegner Stegner's prose are beautiful. He paints word pictures that are so...
Words Seldom Seen: Temporal
Temporal Adjective: Related to worldly as opposed to religious or eternal affairs. Example: He is interested in...
Glass Blowing
On our trip to Oregon last month our daughters organized for us to go to a glass blowing studio and have a lesson. I...
