You don’t win battles with hate.
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.
P. J. O’Rourke
I believed peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea was within reach.
Abiy Ahmed
For some of us, driving a car is either an annoying or a harrowing experience. And this mild terror could exist even if we're "pretty good" drivers. But there are so many factors that come into play when we step in behind the wheel. Your editor drives, but only when required. (…
It is not Omsk’s fault that many of us know it only because Dostoevsky spent the darkest four years of his life here.
I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn.
The sun will shine into our yard too.
As Mick says, “Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me And call me the tumbling dice.”
Did you know that the Welsh name for the town, “Caerfyrddin”, means Merlin’s Fort?
Got the feel for an automobile? Say no more.
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is Monaco.” (Matsuo Basho)
“Better once than never, for never too late.” William Shakespeare
Let's hope not! To those of you who have visited Pompei in the past, (as we have done several times ourselves) have you ever been rushed, or crushed by the crowds and, in the end, felt disappointed in the experience? Pompeii is one one of those places where you want to . .…
History is the study of all the world’s crime, according to Voltaire.
C’mon baby. Don’t say maybe,
. . . . by train. No, this is not one of those "shock horror!" Instagram posts. We're too old for that. It's also not yet another expose of sleazy clubs and venues that are scattered around the Motherland. Leave that stuff to the Generation Alpha publishers. There are no selfies in…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…
In Buddhism, Kailash represents the father of the world and lake Mansarovar symbolizes the mother.
While there are some notable skyscrapers in European cities like London, Frankfurt, and Paris, Europe generally has a much lower concentration of skyscrapers compared to North America or Asia. Why is that? Part of it is purely historical, as you might guess. Europe has a long history of urban development, with many cities…
We continue in our series of posts about the Evan’s Bears event and fundraiser. Evan Burgess passed away on October 17, 2018. Born with a congenital heart defect, doctors didn’t expect him to live past the age of two. With the able assistance of Royal Brompton in the UK and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver,…