• Gateway to India

    The Tour: The world closed within months after my last post.  Now, almost four years later,  both our children have gotten married.  This tour will be shared with our daughter (the originator of this blog) and her husband.  We are visiting India, the land of his birth.  Our tour will begin in Mumbai, where Kingston…


  • The Newest Adventure

    Five years ago, I met a man named Kingston. He was born and raised in India, having moved to the USA for graduate school and remained for work. We bonded over a shared love of international cultures. Three years later, in summer 2021, in the middle of COVID, we married in a small ceremony in…


  • Last week, the United Nations General Assembly held a “special emergency session” under its “Uniting for Peace resolution” power. Unfortunately, while this event was widely covered in international news, the news didn’t always get the details right. So, as the UN nerd that I am, I decided to set the record straight: The Basics UN…


  • A Review: Seven Fallen Feathers

    To describe this book in one word – alarming. In any other setting, with any other group of people, the number of deaths within a single population and the similarities between those deaths would cause the local—or even federal—law enforcement to react. Yet, as the author shockingly notes, little has been done about these deaths.…


  • New Zealand Reflections

    We began our journey in Australia, the oldest subcontinent on Earth, so distant from evolution elsewhere that its only native non-human mammals are marsupials. The aboriginal people have been there for over 30,000 years.  New Zealand is young (and still growing with every earthquake). It’s landscape can be starkly beautiful, which is why Native son,…