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Hello from Merry ‘Ol England

I left a rather chilly but sunny Mexico City and winged my way to Dallas, then Heathrow, finally landing in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the main city of Northumberland, UK. As you can see from the map, I am in the North country, close to the Scottish border. I arrived, and it was raining. I have been here …

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I’ve Gone Back to College – Sort of!

Welcome to the University of California - Berkeley. The most liberal, outspoken, and one of the most difficult-to-get-into universities in the United States. In the above photo of this beautiful campus, you can see the nearby San Francisco Bay with the fog just obscuring the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. But on a sunny, …

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