A man in a coat stands near bodies on a wet city street during wartime.
25 Oct

Perfume River – The storyteller and truth

Book Reviews / Deception
The Storyteller and Truth Robert Olen Butler and Perfume River The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is in my estimation the...
Waves crashing against rocky coastline under a clear sky.
23 Jan

Golden Rain, Fake New, and Dezinformatsiya

Deception / Russia / Soviet Union
‘Fake news’ in the US 2016 Presidential election.  I have Facebook friends and relatives who repost without respite their unfiltered political or doomer or climate or religious mania.  Used to be one encountered...
Book cover titled 'Ледоход' with a sepia-toned portrait and a river scene.
17 Sep

A Wedding In France

Croatia / Germany / Wisconsin
On 10 August 2017, in Bergerac, France my daughter, Michelle Elisabeth Townsend, married. Michelle gave me 45 seconds to summarize before the assembled my impressions, recollections, hopes and fears. I...
Portrait of an elderly man wearing a fur hat.
25 Sep

The Redneck Howards

Family
And Michelle married Nigel Howard, formerly British Army, Royal Engineers (Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)). Think the movie Hurt Locker, the difference being the British Army does not provide metal full body armor...