Knock Twice

Because I live in Washington, DC, or perhaps because I work on Capitol Hill, my family and friends who live outside the beltway periodically ask me about where I stand considering the current milieu of presidential candidates.
“Is there anyone that you like?” I am asked. Most often, my answer is, “no.”

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So, I’ve been meaning to post an update about the status of Fulbright application for a few weeks now… but as things have been super busy with primaries, and caucuses, and states of the union, not to mention bikes, and cleaning and backgammon I haven’t found the time, till now.
As you may recall, I started […]

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About ten years before he died, my brothers and I gave our Grandfather Henry The Macmillan Visual Dictionary as a gift. For Henry, a dyslexic high-school school dropout who supported a family of eight working construction and contracting*, this book was a great fun. Using “3,500 color illustrations,” covering “600 subjects,” with “25,000 terms”, the […]

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Thomas Biesl’s [video]
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