Six Nix-Fix Ticks Sicks
Deer tick season is upon us, and Lyme disease and other tick-borne ailments are a serious health threat, with about one-tenth of Americans having been infected. Today I will give… Read More
Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS
Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club. He has worked in 30 developing countries and traveled to 145 of the world’s 196 nations. He and his wife Susan live in Silver Spring.
Meltdown and Momentum at Madison’s Montpelier
After an epic struggle, equal representation on the Board of Directors has been achieved by descendants of the enslaved at President James Madison’s Montpelier plantation in central Virginia. This struggle… Read More
Who Sank the Moskva?
I predicted in this column back in mid-January, before the invasion of Ukraine, that Putin would invade and would focus on seizing the Black Sea coast, in order to strangle… Read More
Gotta Lemon? Rally LeMons!
Have a rusty “lemon” car in your back yard that barely runs? Love road adventures and general silliness? There’s a LeMons Rally in your future! This past month I hooked… Read More
Become a Digital Nomad!
Tired of that obnoxious boss? Sick of freezing winter? Peeved that your country and its pandemic has killed almost a million of its citizens, and is sliding from democracy into… Read More
The Fate of Ukraine
My best man at my wedding – a great guy and U.S. citizen – now lives in Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife and family. I want to travel there and… Read More
In the Right Wake of Ulysses?
As an economist I was trained to make gargantuan assumptions and then reason from them – reality be damned! So let’s make some: First, in 2022 Covid will be whipped,… Read More
The Search for the Missing Banqueting Hall of Queen Elizabeth I – Part 2
Recall from my column last month that in October 2021 I participated in an archaeological dig at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, searching for the missing Banqueting Hall of Queen Elizabeth… Read More
The Search for the Missing Banqueting Hall and Tudor Garden of Queen Elizabeth I – Part 1
In the summer of 1592, Queen Elizabeth I and her very large retinue of courtiers arrived at Sudeley Castle, a magnificent structure in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, southwest England. The… Read More
Given Covid/Delta, Should You Travel?
Toulmin’s Travel Theorem I want to travel again. I’ve been sitting on my couch for 18 months and have watched every decent and half-decent Netflix and Amazon show – twice!… Read More
Amelia Earhart: Find Me the Lass That’s Gone, Part 4
This sweet, sad, serious song is adapted from the Skye Boat Song, about Bonnie Prince Charlie, written in 1884 by Sir Harold Boulton, and sung to the same tune. My… Read More
A Sarky Song about Earhart Theories: Off We Go, Into the Wild Bird Guano!, Part 3
If you Google “Songs about Amelia Earhart,” you will find various songs about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra 10E. Not to be outdone, I… Read More