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Saturday, April 2, 2022

The Five People I Would Love To Have Dinner With

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Marie Curie after receiving the first of two Nobel Prizes  A friend keeps a changing list of the five people she wants to have dinner with. ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Maison Fournaise, My Favorite Restaurant in Paris is a Victim of COVID

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  Last month when I visited Paris, I took the suburban train to Chatou to visit a restaurant that had closed in March of 2020 and never reop...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Understanding Beliefs: Book 10 of 2022

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  The thesis statement of Understanding Beliefs is in the middle of page three in the first chapter:  One of the most important things to sa...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

The Museum of the Great War, Somme, France

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At the end of my trip to Europe last month, I visited the Museum of the Great War in Somme.  The museum is in a castle near the site of the ...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

"Scalia/Ginsburg," an Opera in One Act--So Much Fun

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  Today I went to the Gardner theater at Lancaster Country Day School , the K-12 school of two of my six kids, and saw the one-act opera ...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Prisoners of Geography, Published in 2015, Relevant Right Now! Book 11 of 2022

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  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics   by Tim Marshall. Sometimes a book title...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Bad Religion Kills Good People

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The book "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall begins, "Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of t...