Resist! Italians show the way

Italians sing ... from their balconies during coronavirus lockdown... and it "goes viral"

Donald John Trump Presidential Library

Take 1. The Donald John Trump Presidential Library.
A number of people commented that it had too many books for a man who proudly states he never reads. So...

Take 2. We'll probably get this right when Twitter opens an account called Donald John Trump Presidential Database of Tweets.

Wow! Way to go, Colbert...and Romney

Just when you think the end is nigh... a miracle of honesty and courage (on the part of both Colbert and Romney): GOP-Controlled Senate Finds Trump Not Guilty, But Mitt Romney Honors His Oath And Votes To Convict (skip to minute 6:00 or so).

Downtown Oakland, California

A small effort to keep pace with urban change
After moving from the inner San Francisco Bay, my home for most of my years in California, I felt like a tourist recently when visiting Oakland. I got lost in Chinatown!
Over the next few weeks I'll post a series of photos taken over several years that capture some of these changes. First up: the evolution of a mural painted in Oakland from March to May, 2017.

Stomper - click to view this mural's evolution

Sunsets and a sunrise over the Sacramento Delta

Views at sunset and sunrise over the Sacramento Delta

Houseboat Living

Big changes! Houseboat living! Check out the new blog, Delta Hand: A Swabbie's Tales of Houseboat Living.

• First Night Aboard
• Two Weeks a Swabbie
• Most recent post: Heads as Headache
• Sunsets and a sunrise, too

Southern African Musings

Life is ... different... in my neck of the Southern Hemisphere, near the arrows and red dot on the map:

Follow the journey of discovery, disorientation, irritation and, sometimes, joy:

• The miracle of knowhow coupled with imagination
• Laughing off load-shedding, reprise
• Expat reentry
• Potholes - version published as 
• Culture Shock Comorbid with Bureaucratitis. Welcome home! 
• Mosquitoes
• Comrades Marathon