Apr 19, 2024 | Current Affairs - Travel
Interesting stuff happening or happened Thursday, April 18, 2024. Not an exhaustive list. Definite liberal truth bias. By Jan Blixt (@janblixt on Threads). Voting will run in 7 phases from April 19 to June 1 for India’s national elections, THE biggest...
Apr 18, 2024 | Current Affairs - Family - History - Travel
I’m married to an avid news follower. Each day, Jan texts me snippets of the news she consumes while she’s doing other things. I’ve long tried to convince her to make these public. Yesterday she started doing just that, on her Threads account...
Jan 8, 2022 | History - Nellie Bly - Travel
New York World – Sunday, January 8, 1888 There Dwells a Sect With More Millions Than Members Of the Thousand Who Followed George Rapp to America in 1805 Eighteen Now Remain—They Think the World Will End Before the Last of Them Dies—Quiet and Simple Life in a...
Jan 18, 2019 | Family - Travel
I have the rather dubious distinction of having been both thrown out of the Vatican, and blessed by the Pope. Though not on the same day. The Vatican Incident (a good Robert Ludlum title) happened while I was on a semester abroad with Eastern Michigan University’s...
Dec 10, 2015 | Books - Cut Scenes - Shakespeare - Short Stories - The Novel - Travel
I've been hunkered down for weeks, scattered between four or five different writing projects. No, at least eight. Wait, that's not right – where am I? What day is it? No matter. Because I'm surfacing to announce the arrival of a long-promised project...
