Adventures of Americans Abroad

We Visited Several Countries Last Month. What Did We Find? Our First International Trip During This Administration And so our latest international adventure we mentioned a few weeks ago has concluded. Six countries (Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, and Iceland) over a couple of weeks, and I promised to share …

What Is It Like To Be An American Overseas Now?

I’ll Let You Know Shortly By the time you read this, we will be several days into a trip into 6 different countries. To say it is an interesting time to be a traveling American is likely an understatement for the ages. We have friends who have been traveling since …

Talk To The Animals

And Listen When They Talk To You A Lifelong Fascination I admit that the idea of communicating with animals, at the level we communicate with each other, has been a lifelong fascination for me. Who would not give a lot to be able to do this with all sorts …

Reflections on Post-Disaster Community

Disasters Really Do Bring Out the Best and the Worst in Us Sometimes We Manage To Leave Politics Behind Last year the area around which I live was hit hard by Tropical Storm Helene – the recovery is still underway, with over 100 people killed and billions of dollars in …

Well, At Least The Path Forward Is Clear

The Speed In Which Trump’s Awful Legislation Passed Speaks Volumes What the Public Thinks About All This Some really interesting data points on all this. Reliable polls show that people who have any information at all on the legislation hate it, by 2 -1 margin. But it also shows that …

Six Short Topics For Today

Elections Have Consequences Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid The proposed Trump budget essentially guts Medicaid and dumps the resulting deficit of funding onto the states. If you think Social Security and Medicare are not next, I have a bridge I would like to sell you. This is simply the start …