Learning to Read, Write, and Speak
May 29, 2021I typically try not to write too much about my children. Bragging about them can be good in moderate amounts, but as the Western world has seen in the past f...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
May 22, 2021A couple of years ago, my father recommended me a book called A Time of Gifts By Patrick Leigh Fermor. The book chronicles the beginning of Fermor’s travels ...
Finishing the Carpet
May 16, 2021For a long time, the upstairs bedrooms in our house have been unfinished. This is mostly because of a multitide of setbacks, starting with the discovery that...
Terrorism in Rambouillet
April 24, 2021Yesterday afternoon, a man of Tunisian origin attacked and killed Stephanie, an employee at the Rambouillet police station, with a knife. He cut her throat b...
Robert Massie’s Russian Rulers
March 27, 2021I’ve just finished Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie, and since it is the third and final biography of a Russian emperor or empress t...