Continue Reading Fortress Europe The newly formed German government is about to break apart over the refugee question. Chancellor Merkel, head of the conservative CDU, is…
Continue Reading The Ties that Bind (Blest be) the Tie that Binds is a hymn written in 1782 by theologian John Fawcett. It was a celebration of ties…
Continue Reading Visibility In the 1950s and 60s you still had to stop at a checkpoint and show your passport when crossing the border into…
Continue Reading Perceptions I lived for a year in Arnhem when I was little, and spent a large part of my later childhood in a…
Continue Reading Artistry Since we started on Dutch memory lane yesterday we might as well pursue that path today. And since memory lane does not…
Continue Reading Courage My father died 16 years ago in June. I have been thinking about him a lot lately because I coincidentally came across…
Continue Reading Blue Two more died this May. There will be no obituaries for them but at least we can name them. We can name…
Continue Reading Orange Carmen Yulia Cruz – Puerto Rico Politician We just learned that the official count of 64 hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico was…
Continue Reading Rot(h) It was difficult to escape the glowing obituaries of Philip Roth who died this month at age 84. They were ubiquitous, one…
Continue Reading White Tom Wolfe, journalist and author, wearer of white suits, died on May 14th. (Photographs today in his honor therefor are white flowers….
