Monthly Archive: February 2016
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row ……… They blew in May 1915 when Canadian army doctor, John McCrae, wrote these immortal lines. They blow today. Colorful memorials of a war-torn world entrenched in the bloody,...
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is a course by Professor Grant Hardy of the University of North Carolina compiled for The Great Courses. We listened to the audio book, Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition, on some...
Let the flowers die unwatered in their vases. Flowers? Yes, they are there. Someone needed to do something. Accept them graciously. Or not. God knows this is bleak, unchartered territory for you ….. You with this gaping hole, groping around...
I am not a “foodie” as I said in the article The One Thing I Bake – but this salad recipe is definitely the one thing I take whenever I need to take anything to a party, fiesta, bbq or book...
Out with Ebola – the Zika virus has us all hot under the collar right now ! New? Not really – its been around since the 1950s, but only last year jumped the equatorial belt and went viral all over...
A Day in the Life My grandfather sailed from Cape Town, South Africa to England on Thursday 10th May 1917 to join the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) in the ‘War to End All Wars’(as World War 1 is commonly known):...