In the year 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote some advice still worth following in 2017:  " Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with y...

As the year 2016 played out, posts from this blog became intermittent and then just dwindled away. I began spending less and less time on so...

The first time I left North America I was 14 years old. During my initial year of living abroad, I became aware that Americans sometimes ha...

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