The Philosopher's Stone

On December 8 th , Maciek , in a comment to my blog post, writing from Poland, asked why my family left Suwalki , Poland. Somehow, I failed...

One more time to the market, for the makings of the last dinner I shall prepare here in Paris, before we head home next Tuesday. Susie opte...

Success has crowned my efforts! I am proud and pleased to announce that I have succeeded in creating un vrai boeuf bourguignon. The entire...

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of Paris [my apologies to the Bard.] It was in the eighties today, sun...

Not THAT market! Not the foundation of liberty, the bulwark of the Free World, the Eden of Bentham, Friedman, and Adam Smith, The God That ...

We set out for Paris from Chapel Hill, NC on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. to drive the 150 miles to Charlotte so that we could try the newly esta...

This will be my last post until next week, as I am getting ready to fly to the West Coast to see my son, Patrick, his wife Diana Schneider, ...

I have long thought that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is, hands down, the dumbest member of the Senate. However, Chuck Grassley's ...

On their last night in Europe, Barack and Michelle went out on a date -- dinner at a little bistro in the 7th arrondissement called La Fonta...