MY RECENT POSTS
- ‘Letters to the Heart’:
Remembering Japan’s Great
Tragedy
March 10, 2012 01:44PM - The Forgotten Crash at
Taillefontaine, France
November 11, 2011 09:50AM - Our Most Recent Fallen Heroes
in Afghanistan
August 27, 2010 11:50PM - No Outrage at the Pentagon's
'Ground Zero'
August 22, 2010 11:01PM - Iraq: ‘The Long Goodbye,’
by The Stars and Stripes
August 20, 2010 09:54AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I have not been at Open
Salon for ages. Your post was
worth
coming back to.
Beau…”
May 26, 2012 03:29PM - “Thank you, both.”
March 11, 2012 08:40AM - “Regrettably and de jure
you are right.”
October 07, 2010 06:41PM - “A belated thank you to
both of you, Barbara and T.
T.”
September 02, 2010 05:15PM - “Thanks,
xenonlit.
And sorry
if I haven't acknowledged some
previous comment
you
ma…”
August 22, 2010 10:51PM
Dorian de Wind's Links
- New list
- The Moderate Voice
I just read an excellent article at The Moderate Voice titled “Burning The Qur’an, Literally and Figuratively.”
The article made me reflect quite a bit on the disturbing increase in anti-Muslim, anti-Islam sentiments and rhetoric in our country, b… Read full post »
Most of the reports I have seen on yesterday's Senate confirmation hearings for General David H. Petraeus’ nomination to Commander, ISAF/US Forces–Afghanistan, focused on what the senators and the general had to say, ask and answer about our political and military obj… Read full post »
Some of the most memorable and idyllic times of my early youth are the days and weeks I spent in the late 1940s with my parents and sister in the “Oriente” in my native Ecuador.
The “Oriente” is Ecuador’s name for its beautiful jungle… Read full post »
Several of my family members in Ecuador are “shrimp farmers.”
In other words, they do not venture out to sea as our friends in the Gulf do, but rather they “cultivate” shrimp in huge man-made, salt water ponds or lagoons at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.… Read full post »
As we mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon today, I vividly remember the chaotic and heartbreaking images of South Vietnamese men, women and children desperately clamoring up a ladder and reaching out to a dangerously overloaded American helicopter. Despai… Read full post »
The disease
… Read full post »
As a person of Dutch ancestry, and one who lived in the Netherlands and its Antilles for many years, I was naturally shocked to read and hear about the tragic events in the Dutch town of Apeldoorn yesterday.
As we all know now, a black Suzuki sped toward an open-topped… Read full post »
Those of you who can still afford to do so, probably consult one of the the Michelin Red Guides to select your favorite restaurant when traveling abroad or when visiting New York, Las Vegas or Los Angeles.
And those of you who have been untouched by our current “lean… Read full post »
As I am half Dutch and half Latino, I never know which side of my personality will prevail in stress situations. This became pointedly clear during our recent vacation in Amsterdam.
Having lived in the Netherlands during my youth, and having visited Amsterdam frequently, I… Read full post »
It doesn’t happen that often any more, but there are still times when my English-born wife gently—sometimes not so gently—awakens me in the middle of the night to tell me that I have been talking in my sleep again…in Spanish.
Invariably, she will ask me in the morning what I… Read full post »
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