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This morning, I was pleased to receive an e-mail indicating that the time might be ripe to investigate a tantalizing genealogical challenge,...

Over the last fortnight, I've been following with interest the trial of "Scooter" Libby , former chief-of-staff of US vice pre...

A dog and its bone. What could be more trivial? Hardly worth a blog post. I'm sorry to disagree, but it is ! Sophia's bone is a trea...

An official communiqué informs us that Aussie darling Kylie Minogue and the dashing French actor Olivier Martinez have decided to split up,...

Let me barge once again through a wide open door by declaring that we live in a world that is becoming more and more complex. Funnily enough...

As a kid, I was amused by the trivial ambiguity of the expression "pretty little man". Normally, "pretty" is used as a g...

This morning, from my bathroom window, I caught sight of a weasel under my grapevine. The elegant little beast (scientific name Mustela niva...

Following my initial version of yesterday's post, I received feedback suggesting that my stance on global warming was lukewarm (pardon t...

This week, Paris is the world center of worries about the weather. Some 500 experts associated with a UN-sponsored body called IPCC [ Inter...

Like the apostle Paul, it's often when I'm traveling that I receive revelations... but that's probably all we have in common. Th...

While I never set out to break records, I'm happy to see that my blog has passed the mark of 50 posts. And this article in this morning...

For old-timers such as me, this morning's Internet images of the anti-Bush protest rally in Washington bring back media memories of the ...

It's not easy to get out a blog on time—or even, for that matter, to get out a blog at all—when the blogger's advanced age accords h...

The Australia Day website at http://www.australiaday.gov.au/pages/index.asp says: On January 26, 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip took formal po...

I don't know who invented the delightful reference to a secondhand car salesman that sums up doubts about somebody's credibility. We...

As far as the eye can see (which isn't very far, because of the haze), the countryside is shrouded in a thin blanket of snow, which star...

Last weekend, Mandrin's mistress dropped in at Gamone. The Mandrin I'm talking about is not the celebrated bandit (described in an e...

Beyond the frontiers of France (in Australia, for instance), if one were to ask the question " Who is the most popular person in France...

Red sails in the sunset? [old song] I've been enchanted by a delightful anecdote, told to me yesterday by my son, concerning the extrao...

In 1962, when I arrived in Paris for the first time and started working with IBM, I wasn't yet capable of reading French newspapers. So,...