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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Putting the People You Love in Hell: Dante and Ser Brunetto

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  In Canto 15 of Inferno  Dante speaks with his former mentor Ser Brunetto Latini.  His sin is not named, but it is sodomy.  He is in Hell f...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Putting My Books in Alphabetical Order

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  A month ago, after looking for a book, I decided to re-shelve of my physical books in alphabetical order by author.  In the process, I rem...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall

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  Earlier this year I wrote about my seven favorite books from the fifty I read last year. Tied for second place was Tim Marshall's boo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Reporting from the Front Lines of the War in Ukraine: Kristaps Andrejsons

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Kristaps Andrejsons, Host and Creator of The Easter Border podcast Since 2017 I have been listening to a podcast from Latvia,  The Eastern B...

Catching Up with a Great Science Writer and Bicyclist I Haven't Seen For More Than 15 Years.

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  Katharine Sanderson and I on the  north side of the Millennium Bridge In 2004 Katharine Sanderson flew from the offices of "Chemistry...
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Philosophy Discussions on the Way to NYC Shopping

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From 2002 until the pandemic, several of my kids and I would go to New York the day after Christmas to shop along Broadway. Usually we drove...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Zanis Lipke Memorial, Riga, Latvia: Honoring a Man Who Hid Jews from the Nazis

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Zanis Lipke during World War II Since 2017, I have visited ten death camps and many Holocaust memorials across Europe and in Israel. Before ...