Ticino memory: My Dad is over in Switzerland visiting my brother and his family and he brought this memory to mind. He’s never been over there while grapes were on the vine. One of my (many) fond memories of living in Ticino (Tessin auf Deutsche) is from the walk home during the late summer-early fall. [...]
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Grapes on the vine
Posted in International Relations, Memories, tagged Collina d'Oro, grapes, Switzerland, Ticino, wine on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Immigration vs. Unions (?)
Posted in International Relations, Life, Random, Working and Jobs, tagged immigration, Mother Jones, The Nation, Unions on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading this article http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/year-without-mexican (This quote was on the first page of the article linked above): “Facing criticism from the left, new Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano promised an investigation, insisting she hadn’t known of the raid in advance. Whatever becomes of that probe, last month’s raid underscores the difficulty of navigating between [...]
International Standards I
Posted in International Relations, Memories, Uncategorized, tagged frontiers, International Relations on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(aka People are the same all the world over) You might be thinking I’m going to write about the International Baccalaureate (IB) or some ISO type of thing, but I’m not. Having previously lived the exciting life of an expatriate, people have sometimes asked, “What was it like?”, “What the people were like?” or “What [...]
