Happy Thanksgiving!

by | Nov 27, 2025 | letters

Hi my American friends, happy Thanksgiving! Today is one day I truly regret not to be in the US of A, because you have Thanksgiving, the greatest of all holidays known to mankind. Soon you will stuff the bird and put it in the oven,  you will toss your ricidulous...

Trump is winning

by | Aug 21, 2025 | letters

I went coast to coast, from Baltimore/Maryland to San Francisco/California. Was looking around a bit, talking to some folks, taking note of “the media” and enjoying the greatness of the place. The upshot of it all, as seen through a personal lens and...

Late voting – a letter to the American friends

by | Nov 24, 2024 | letters

Hi there, I hope you are doing as well as we do. We just had an enormous blast of early snow, a foot or so in the lowlands. Behind the house, the kids are sledding like crazy, constantly chaperoned by worried housewives and their spouses (when I was young, fathers and...

8 days

by | Oct 29, 2024 | letters

While writing this, I am watching the game. World Series, game 3, the Dodgers at Yankee stadium. Unbelievable: Freddie Freeman hits his third homer in the third game. This will be good. *** In Detroit, one of the election issues is the Arab vote. There are about...

10 days

by | Oct 28, 2024 | letters

Ten days before the polls will close, millions of Americans have already voted by mail. Contrary to the odd conservative hullabaloo about the evils of early voting four years ago, the practice is gaining ground here in strides. In some states a majority of ballots...