That is for a tourist, one who came here in November hoping for the white and being told that it usually really only comes in a appreciable amount in February. That was not good for someone leaving just as that month was beginning! Well, somehow, that is not how it…

Or how an Idealist can say “Life is Good!” Expecting another somber essay about the state of the world? Well, no! Years ago, living in Paris for a while, I learned a lesson from two young Christian Dior models. Ever so slender, on what most would consider a draconian diet…

It seems that all we, humans, are capable of doing right now, is fighting each other. Perhaps, it comes from the fact that we are at least three generations away from the last world war. …

Discovering Montreal, slowly venturing out of the little circle of the neighborhood of a temporary home, a crazy idea came to mind. It did not come from the day’s blue sky but from previous forays into the small area which used to be home for factory workers, but is now…

One is math, patterns, structures and the other is feeling, emotions, actions. Have you ever thought that there might be a link between the two? Well, I must admit that I did not even know what fractals were until last weekend. After all, I am someone who basically functions in…

I’m Turning Seventy-Five! What? Yep! It cannot be! Just came back from way over an hour’s run past the town, into the farmers’ fields overlooking the Jura and the Alps. I wasn’t even breathing hard. Must have done at least eight, nine kilometers, that is over five miles. Yeah, that’s…

Language, History and Culture in a Bookshelf As someone with three languages, cultures and histories (Russian, Franco/Belgian and American) by the time I was ten, I noticed, through the books that I had to read or chose to read, that the three languages represented three different environments and approaches to…

Remembering Parts of Geneva as it was Forty, Fifty Years Ago When you are of a certain age as I am, if you have not gone somewhere for a long time, you tend to remember places and the people in them in a certain way. You may actually not remember…

Collective Action or Collective Misery Lessons from the Life, Transformation and Actions of Nelson Mandela We celebrated Nelson Mandela day on the 18th of this month. On the same day at the highest levels the cry came out that if we do not undertake collective action on the climate situation…