• First Snow

    The snow is a little early this year, usually don’t get any of this until around Thanksgiving.  Glad that I got the vegetable (more or less) cleaned up for the winter. Good day to curl up in front of the fire with Alice Feeney’s, Sometimes I Lie. From the Old Farmer’s Almanac: NOVEMBER 2017: temperature… Continue reading

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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    I found Rosa Brooks via David Rothkopf’s Deep State Podcast. As a neophyte to foreign policy, listening to the podcast has been a learning experience. I downloaded the book from Audible as I thought it might be easier to digest it by listening (and it was, at least for me it was). Rosa Brooks is… Continue reading

  • The French Girl

    The French Girl

    The French Girl is one of those books that immerses you. A well written tale of six English students who spend a week in the French countryside only to have a French girl who was staying across the way go missing. Fast forward ten years and five of the six students are now settled into… Continue reading