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Les Foufounes….

August 12, 2026

  Stepping out of my favourite Vietnamese restaurant last night was like plunging into a churning black sea with frothing …

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Yesterday And Today….

August 9, 2026

  My generation was lucky.   We crossed the fraught years of adolescence before home video games took hold towards …

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A Golden Age….?

August 5, 2026

Hong Kong   Here’s a strange topic for a blog purportedly devoted to Life, understanding, personal growth and the importance …

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An Outlook Divide….

July 30, 2026

  Jean-Marc and I exchanged a few friendly words in the Carré the other day. He was sitting on a …

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“Bonjour….”

July 25, 2026

  I ride the elevator to my new eighth floor apartment and I cannot help noticing that there is a …

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Art?!!….

July 23, 2026

  I was having dinner at the bar of a downtown Irish Pub when a woman sat next me and …

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“Act Your Age!”….

July 20, 2026

  “Instead of intelligently instructing and quietly influencing, people now strew seeds and weeds together indiscriminately on all sides; no …

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The Old Man And The See…..

July 17, 2026

  Ya, that’s a little awkward. The ‘see’ and not the ‘sea.’    For I am referring to the perception …

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Moving Day (Still?!) ….

July 12, 2026

Symphony in the parc…   So furniture is still making its way between old and new apartments and the tight …

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The End Of An Epoch… And The Birth Of….?

June 27, 2026

  The West, born of Germanic and then Viking marauders, took to the high seas in the fifteenth century. The …

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