Oct 15, 2011
STEVE JOBS IN TEHERAN
Steve Jobs in Teheran This morning I received an email from Teheran, Iran: Steve Jobs has died. The news made every one sad, even here in Iran, where few people…
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Oct 15, 2011
Kickapoo Friends Visit Florida
spending three days with my two Traditional Kickapoo friends from Eagle Pass, Texas/Nacimiento, Mexico was a great pleasure indeed. It made me wonder how these remnants and descendants of ancient…
Oct 15, 2011
Cross Cultural Sensitivity and my Kickapoo friends
I have been fortunate to have been friends with the Traditional Kickpoos with current homelands in Eagle Pass Texas and Nacimiento Mexico. They were originally in the Green Bay area…
Oct 15, 2011
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK… Cherry Creek, South Dakota
in travel forums like The VirtualTourist, i see people wanting to go to Off the beaten track, for me , they exist everywhere, not only in cheap countries which are…
Oct 15, 2011
VISIT THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF USA..outsiders made welcome here
Despite my repeated visits to this sprawling country and the remoteness of some of my destinations, Eagle Pass, Texas Walthill, Nebraska Eagle Butte, South Dakota; I am amazed at the…
Oct 15, 2011
Learn to Love your Brothers and Sisters.. they are everywhere
One of the images burnt in my memory is that of an Israeli soldier carrying an elderly Ethiopian Jewish woman, during the clandestine airlifting of 10 000 Ethiopian Jews to…
Oct 15, 2011
DONT LISTEN TO PROFESSIONAL NUTRITIONAL ADVICE; IMITATE THE FRENCH
Dont listen to the nutritional advice you see on the Internet or from a person to whom you pay to hear it.. just watch the french eat.. why is that…
Oct 15, 2011
Quiberon, almost as if I am back in OZ
Many years later while walking in solitude along the streets of Palermo in BA, I used to think of the innocent days in Melbourne,where I thought the flowers had the…
Oct 15, 2011
The Long Way Home from the Blue House: The Vagaries of Travel
Because y itineraries and plans change without much notice or plans, I end up in journeys longer than planned. Take this last one for example. To get back home to…
Oct 15, 2011
We will always have Paris..Indians need you now
I have had a long and fruitful association with some tribes of North American Indians. In the years I have been coming to see them on a regular basis, I…
Oct 15, 2011
American Ingenuity or Two Dollar A day Chinese Workforce?
STEVE JOBS, AMERICAN INGENUITY, TWO DOLLAR A DAY CHINESE WORKFORCE ON WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU? This week, the Jewish High Holiday week has been full of news of all sorts.…
Sep 15, 2011
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.. GRATITUDE
American Indians place a lot of importance on Gratitude, feeling happy with what you have, (and thus not feeling unhappy with what you dont have) and they make a point…