Time is getting closer for our German trip. We go by train on August 9th and it is an 8-hour trip. We leave at 5:30 a.m. and I can’t imagine what shape we will be in when we arrive. Fritz has made reservations for us at a hotel in Munich. I guess I am nutsContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : August 3, 1971: Bled, Yugoslavia: Letter from Margaret Mary Stephen to Daughter Barbara and Son Andrew: Woman Obsessed with Upcoming Trip to Munich”
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“Travels To A Different Time” : Letter From Margaret Mary Stephen to Her Mother on August 3, 1971, Bled, Yugoslavia
It is August 3rd and we are in Bled in the Julian Alps. We arrived yesterday. We will stay here until August 9th and then travel to Munich by train. We will meet our friend Fritz there and he has a car. We may stay in Munich for a week and take a cruise onContinue reading ““Travels To A Different Time” : Letter From Margaret Mary Stephen to Her Mother on August 3, 1971, Bled, Yugoslavia”
RKS Wine: The Okanagan’s Mayhem 2020 Riesling and My Treatment for Riesling Hesitation Syndrome
I am very discerning about Ontario Rieslings and I don’t want to stir things up about why. I have much better luck with British Columbia Rieslings. Trust Mayhem to cause a bit of mayhem with its Riesling as not only was it aged in stainless steel but neutral French oak. EEKS! Oak and Riesling! DoesContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Okanagan’s Mayhem 2020 Riesling and My Treatment for Riesling Hesitation Syndrome”
RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing
“American Reckoning” is a mostly uncomfortable documentary about the emergence of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement of the “negro” in the United Sates of the 1960’s as fleshed out through the 1967 murder of NAACP activist Wharlest Jackson Sr. killed by a car bomb in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. Wharlest Sr. was in someContinue reading “RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing”
“Travels to a Different Time” :August 4, 1971; Bled, Yugoslavia: Greasy Eats and Food Flies in Anger!
Out for dinner of greasy stuffed green peppers. Mom lit up a cancer stick so I didn’t talk to her for awhile and she took a tantrum and said, “All right Robert if you continue to be such a child I will leave you the money and go home.” Who is the child here? ThenContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :August 4, 1971; Bled, Yugoslavia: Greasy Eats and Food Flies in Anger!”
RKS Wine: Portugal’s Alentejano Goes Beyond Indigenous and My Thoughts On A Corked Wine
In addition to Portuguese indigenous grapes Alentejano wines often throw into the blend some “international” grapes such as Syrah, Alicante Bouschet or Merlot. For example the 2016 Flor de Maio has in its blend of Trincadeira and Aragonez some Syrah. It is garnet in color. As for aroma there is black cherry, ripe strawberry, chocolateContinue reading “RKS Wine: Portugal’s Alentejano Goes Beyond Indigenous and My Thoughts On A Corked Wine”
RKS Poetry: “Canada’s Trucker Terrorists”
Canada’s Trucker Terrorists A sick and tired of it all populist movement mushroomsTV dinner eating good Canadians huddle over their President’s Choice farelistening to a Prime Minister and a mayor of Ottawagathering “intelligence” about the “insurrectionists”cutting off gas supplies to the terrorist truckersthe biggest threat to democracy in Canada they howla Trumpian conspiracy full ofContinue reading “RKS Poetry: “Canada’s Trucker Terrorists””
“Travels to a Different Time” : August 2, 1971: Krk, Bled Yugoslavia: What a Long Day: A Never-Ending Journey
Up and at em on Mom’s birthday. Up at 4:15 a.m. to catch a 5 a.m. bus to Rijeka. On our bus and groggy! Half an hour later we all heard a big CRACK. Bus breakdown. So we headed back on the bus on the other side of the road back to Krk. Again overcrowdingContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : August 2, 1971: Krk, Bled Yugoslavia: What a Long Day: A Never-Ending Journey”
“Travels to A Different Time” : July 30, 1971: Rab and Krk, Yugoslavia: Thank You Tourist Office for a Murderous Day: Purse Snatching Attempt
Today was complete murder. The tourist office informed us we could get a ferry to the island of Krk at 5 a.m. so we were up at 3:30 a.m. The 4:30 bus to the docks never showed up as the tourist office advised us it would. Thank you tourist office. So changing plans we tookContinue reading ““Travels to A Different Time” : July 30, 1971: Rab and Krk, Yugoslavia: Thank You Tourist Office for a Murderous Day: Purse Snatching Attempt”
RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization
It is almost inevitable that a death in the family brings about a streak of self realization. It can also tear apart a family or reunite it or even a bit of both. The American film “Give or Take” examines bereavement and its effect on family and friends. Kenneth dies in Cape Cod leaving aContinue reading “RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization”
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