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Friday, December 10, 2021

The Loving Resistance Fighter

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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Nearly three decades, more than a decade before Facebook was a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Air Speed Versus Ground Speed on a Bicycle

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  Riding around the airstrip at Camp Adder, Iraq One afternoon in Iraq in 2009, I decided to ride to supper from the motor pool on a day wit...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Talking About Mysteries and the Pandemic with a Writer of a Pandemic Mystery

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Alison Joseph At the beginning my recent trip to Europe I had lunch with the mystery writer Alison Joseph and her husband Tim Boon, head of ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Lunch in Paris Talking NASCAR!!

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Nita Wiggins, author of Civil Rights Baby and I  at the Red Wheelbarrow bookstore in Paris In July of this year, I met professor Nita Wiggin...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt Brandnacht or "Fire Night"

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  A series of signs in the center of Darmstadt describe Brandnacht translated "Fire Night." On that night thousands died and more ...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

A Holocaust Memorial in Darmstadt Attacked Twice and Still Standing

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Near the central station of Darmstadt, Germany, there is a memorial to the deportation of Jews and Gypsys (Roma) during 1942 and 1943. This ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

A Facebook Post About Friendship--with all the comments

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Cliff and I eating sushi in Poland--and joking about eating local cuisine. [I posted this essay on facebook and got such good comments I dec...