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Month: November 2013

Cato the Elder said…

After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. (Cato the Elder)

Couchsurfing in the Borscht Belt

The act of hosting a foreign traveler in your home is right on so many levels. The Judeo-Moslem-Christian tradition of hospitality emanates from Abraham, the father of all three religions. In the book of Genesis, Abraham ...

When You Run Out of Bondo… Spidey To The Rescue

Spidey tape for those dents and bruises. (Seen on the streets of Asheville NC USA)

The Borscht Belt

My grandparents lived in New York City when I was growing up. We often made the pilgrimage from Binghamton to the Big Apple along the old Route 17 that wound through the Catskill Mountains in eastern ...