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19 05, 2023

The Empty Raincoat

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-05-19T04:46:31+00:00May 19th, 2023|Books, Education, Personal, Philosophical, Society|

The Empty Raincoat The Age of Unreason first appeared in bookshops in 1989.  The front cover illustration was of a frog with a placard [...]

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17 03, 2023

Here and There – France

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-03-17T03:49:14+00:00March 17th, 2023|Education, Personal, Society|

Here and There – France I wonder how often a blogger asks, “how much do I want to disclose?”  Everything you write can offer [...]

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17 02, 2023

Here and There – Norway

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-02-17T04:04:07+00:00February 17th, 2023|Education, Personal, Society, Technology|

Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days.  Recollections from [...]

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10 02, 2023

Bridge to Terabithia

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-02-10T03:19:46+00:00February 10th, 2023|Books, Education, Personal, Philosophical, Society|

Bridge to Terabithia Some books remain stuck in your memory, while others gently fade away.  There is a moment at the beginning of Wind [...]

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6 01, 2023

Theodore Zeldin

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-01-06T03:24:55+00:00January 6th, 2023|Books, Education, Personal, Society|

Theodore Zeldin Why am I attracted to people who deliberately place themselves out of the mainstream?  As an undergraduate studying social anthropology, I had [...]

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30 12, 2022

Here and There – Bavaria

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-12-30T01:40:43+00:00December 30th, 2022|Education, Personal, Society|

Here and There – Bavaria Do you believe that on some occasions we have a presentiment, a sense we have seen or experienced something [...]

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9 12, 2022

Virginia Woolf

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-12-09T03:00:01+00:00December 9th, 2022|Books, Education, Politics, Society|

Virginia Woolf In writing about Virginia Woolf, I’m going to take the easy way out.  I will avoid talking about her novels.  It’s a [...]

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18 11, 2022

Here and There – China – Shanghai

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-18T04:22:51+00:00November 18th, 2022|Education, Personal, Society, Technology|

Here and There – China – Shanghai I first went to Shanghai for work in 1998.  I had been to China several times before, [...]

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30 09, 2022

Theodore Roszak

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-30T04:26:24+00:00September 30th, 2022|Books, Education, Politics, Technology|

Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic.  While their students were taking to the streets in [...]

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12 08, 2022

Here and There – Wales

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-08-12T03:27:22+00:00August 12th, 2022|Education, Personal, Society|

Here and There – Wales My view of Wales is a tangle of images, of instant potato, graptolites, stunning scenery, rain and young women.  [...]

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