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Thanksgiving

>Warning: This is off the top of my head<

Hmmmm… Ben (from Britain) asks such a simple question, ” Not wishing to seem wholly ignorant, but what *exactly* is this thanksgiving malarky all about? Is it effectively an excuse to cheer up another winter evening, rather like when we have fireworks?”

yet… it has its […]

Americana Revisited

One thing I have been doing a lot of in the past few weeks is doing things that will be rather difficult to do once in Germany, whether for cultural, geographic, or linguistic reasons.

Certainly in the linguistic, and perhaps cultural, category is the weekly auction held in downtown Bloomington. Somehow I convinced Mateo and […]

Lincoln Boyhood Home

Today on my way home from visiting MT and Gary, I stopped by the boyhood home of US President Abraham Lincoln in Southern Indiana. Quite frankly I was surprised.

For those of you who aren’t sure who he is, Lincoln was the president of the United States of America who freed the slaves and led […]

Fahrenheit 9/11

Last night I joined a large number of my fellow Bloomington citizens and saw Fahrenheit 9/11, that new film by Michael Moore. I suppose I could be like many other people out there and write some fantastic review of the film that makes it seem like the second coming of Christ, but that would be […]