The ExPat Writer

  Last week Senator (R) Mitch McConnell checked into a hospital. He had the flu.  "His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the...

I spent almost three weeks with Eleanor Roosevelt via a three-volume biography by Blanche Weissen Cooke. Although I knew much about the peri...

    My happiest and most rewarding job was covering credit unions internationally especially when it took me to Warsaw, Paris, Dublin and ot...

 An old sign was this week's prompt. Rick's Free Write We are fascinated by artifacts of history. Excavation of the ash-covered rui...

  The bad guys and girls are finding more ways to scam people out of money. One of the earliest targeting me was when I received a text from...

The U.S., about to celebrate its 250 birthday, was founded by white male supremacists. They were the leaders of the colonies, either via the...

  The bowl of tea Rick brings me early this morning perfumes the bedroom. He crawls back into bed. We are both reading. He's researching...

  EPILOGUE  THE FOURTH GRADE class at HJPS was holding its Valentine’s Day party. The desks were in a circle. A heart-decorated box was ...

In reading Book 3 of Blanche Weissen's Cooke's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt's I stopped to read a paragraph to husband Rick. O...