My Insights

My latest thoughts, stories, and  content here.

Куда? Whither?

Оn 31 May Patrice and I are leaving our Madison apartment and on 31 July we are leave Madison. Patrice will teach Rolfing (August-September-October 2013) in Boulder, Colorado. While Patrice...
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Что Делать? What is to be done?

Nickolai Chernyshevski and Vladimir Lenin wrote essays fretting over What is to be done?  As do I; fret, that is. Their ambition was to remake Russia; mine is somewhat less,...
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1st Installment: The Wisconsin Stories

  With this short story P.A. Naparstek and I have begun an experiment of writing and publishing a series of interconnected short stories that will at the end create a...

2nd Installment: The Wisconsin Stories

Patrice publishes her first story: Burial Burial As was Bereft, our previous short story publication, Burial will be offered free on Amazon.com for the five days (20-24 July 2013)...
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Ледоход (Spirit Falls in Russian)

Ледоход   Spirit Falls - Ледоход My long time, Merrill, Wisconsin, friend Serge Kotlar has been translating my Cold War inter-connected series of novels into Russian.  The...
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Leaving Boulder

Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado Tomorrow, the Rocky Mountains eastern slope and the Boulder, Colorado, Flatirons, disappears.  I am glancing over my task list, which in the nature of task...
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Leaving Madison

We are leaving Madison.  Tonight we board Turkish Airlines flight 6 for Istanbul, Turkey, thence to Venice for a few days and onto Rovinj, Croatia. (more…)
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Arriving Rovinj

Patrice reported our travels from the United States through Venice here and here. We stayed in Venice five days.  Venice, even stormy, flooded and windswept, was charming, warm and inviting....
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Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:

While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...
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Arriving in Rovinj, Croatia, November 2013,

Travel Notes Collage, Rovinj Patrice and I have settled in  Rovinj, Croatia, until at least 15 April 2014.  The first apartment we rented (12th century plague house)...