🌊🏊 Are your flippers on?

Yesterday, I was watching a snorkeler spearfishing in front of our house.The wind was onshore and strong, so the waves were bigger than usual. He was keeping just outside the danger point where the waves broke over the coral.I thought to myself, “He's game,...

Are you a Polymath? ⊛

I discovered that I am a “polymath” in a very recent email. A polymath, for those not familiar with the term, is someone that has a wide and diverse set of knowledge spanning many topics. It confuses people because they don’t know whether to think of...

🌈 The French Connection

Can you imagine what happens when a diverse group of people are ruled as a colony by two major colonial powers at the SAME TIME? In this case, the New Hebrides was controlled as a colony jointly by Britian and France from 1906 through to independence in 1980.And that...

The keyboard is mightier than the sword

For the last 17 years Adeline and myself have lived in areas where cyclones sometimes visit, so we keep the recommended 3 weeks' worth of food, water, and medicines stacked in a spare room.Today there are many who are stockpiling food, water, and weapons in...