“Always Well Protected”Stets Wohl Behutet This postcard is a reprint of an ad for a German Hat Company. According to Susi the sender it is a play in German on the similarity between the words Hut/...Read More
”We find ourselves threatened by hoards of Yankee immigrants who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest.” Pio Pico 1846...Read More
The US Post Office is the Amtrak of our children’s generation. It has outlived its usefulness but, because of its sheer size, its momentum will carry it forward another hundred years. There are unio...Read More
Ten Positive things about the COVID Pandemic: Plexiglass is fashionable again. People are decluttering and giving the postcards to me. The pandemic news takes your mind off President Trump’s lat...Read More
The last few months aside the rules for trade, migration and travel are the best they have ever been. Walter Wriston wrote The Twilight of Sovereignty in 1992 and predicted that what the state was abl...Read More
Lot’s of us have been spending a lot more time at home since COVID-19 (How this name came to be) and many people are cleaning out their stuff. Which is good in its own right and it has created a...Read More
Postcards are a Perfect Pandemic Pastime: You get vicarious travel. Which is better than no travel. Social distancing is a built-in feature. Deciphering my bad handwriting gives you something fun to d...Read More