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Every time I take Izzy for a walk to Museumplein, I worry about her getting seriously injured. To cross Van Baerlestraat, one must cross a bike lane, then a car and bus l...

People familiar with cities in the Northeast of the US would call the houses in our neighborhood row houses. The neighborhood we live in is undergoing gentrification and...

Susan en ik hebben ons cursus Nederlands vandaag voltooid. We weten meer dan vooraf, maar leren Nederlands is een erg langzaam proces. Ik hoop dat in één jaar ik kunnen s...

According to Wikipedia, the first Anglo-Afghan war, from 1839 to 1842, became known as the disaster in Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War....

Izzy must poop on the sidewalk most of the time. There are few opportunities for her to poop on grass, which had been her preferred poop-target. With a six poung dog, the...

The first time I discovered all on my own that something someone told me was not true was in about 1953 or 1954. I was 3 or 4. I had seen an ad on TV for Jets cereal. Kid...

Lenora and Linda came to visit us and pose for their picture with Susan. They had a list of things they wanted to do and they did them. And they walked and walked and wal...

Amsterdam has art in lots of places, not just the museums. This piece is located under a bridge where Van Baerlestraat goes over a little piece of Vondel Park. Someone ha...

To watch Ajax (eye-ox), soccer lovers showed up in tens of thousands on and near museumplein until the police declared it 'vol,' or full. So full was it, that the liefheb...

Here's an update. Mosul has been largely destroyed. Here is one of thousands of photographs showing the horror and suffering. (I do not have permission to repost this...

Fabrice made this mosaic. It sits on the corner of a park in front of an Indian restaurant, near the street. Seems to be some kind of electrical building, maybe housing a...

Did you know that Google Translate will translate Latin into English? Not needed very often, but sometimes in Amsterdam. Did you also know that Nederland is one of the w...

More than 100 million people this evening are watching the European Song Festival on TV. Three hours with no commercials. Yodeling, singing, guitar playing, beefcake danc...

There is a reflecting pool between the Rijksmuseum and the Museumplein. Somebody just put this very large collection of pots in the pool while I wasn't looking. Hmmm. Int...

Within one lifetime, Esther Slap-Sammes, a 74 year old woman who lived in the neighborhood where we now live, was forcibly taken from her home by an occupying army, sent...