Tag Archives: Washington Metropolitan area

Shaken and stirred

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

When you live in an area where the ‘natural disaster’ that people are most accustomed to is a power outage–and we had an unexpected four hour outage yesterday, as an electricity pole and its wires fell to the ground near … Continue reading →

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Impossibility theorem

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

I was determined to not write about how the Washington metropolitan area dealt with its first snowfall: the story has been written often enough that the area does not deal well with the white stuff. I also decided that I … Continue reading →

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Kicking up a stink

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

A friend asked me the other evening if I was happier now that I was back in the US. I said that I could not really reply, because I don’t think that happiness is measured on a simple or single … Continue reading →

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