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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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2 12, 2022

Here and There – Russia

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-12-02T01:56:34+00:00December 2nd, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and There – Russia When people write about their parents, they often relate key events during their upbringing, describing the outstanding moments, some [...]

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25 11, 2022

Kurt Vonnegut

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-25T01:26:48+00:00November 25th, 2022|Books, Politics, Society, Technology|

Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]

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4 11, 2022

Here and There – Bermuda

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-04T04:02:57+00:00November 4th, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and there – Bermuda There are many anomalous places in the world, but Bermuda has to be one of the more unusual.  Before [...]

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21 10, 2022

Here and There – Papua New Guinea

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-21T01:26:44+00:00October 21st, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society, Technology|

Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s.  Working for Shell, I was [...]

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7 10, 2022

Here and There – Eire

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-07T02:58:09+00:00October 7th, 2022|Books, Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and There – Éire To someone brought up in England, the west coast of Ireland, Éire, always seemed exotic and different.  This was [...]

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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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23 09, 2022

Here and There – Singapore

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-23T03:36:22+00:00September 23rd, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and There – Singapore Against my expectations, I was in Singapore recently.  I thought I was finished with paid activities, especially working overseas.  [...]

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16 09, 2022

Robert Putnam

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-16T04:31:42+00:00September 16th, 2022|Books, Personal, Politics, Society, Technology|

Robert Putnam In case you haven’t noticed, I am a sucker for ‘big picture’ books (not big ‘picture books’, though I like them, too!).  [...]

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9 09, 2022

Here and There – America

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-09T01:46:42+00:00September 9th, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society|

Here and there – The United States of America I had been living in the US for a little over a year when the [...]

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