Larry Waters

Dix pour cent

| March 25, 2021

I have just finished watching the final episode of Dix pour cent – Call My Agent!  I just loved watching all four seasons. The entire fabric of the series is luxurious. Charm, humour, drama, atmosphere, top-quality acting, this series has it all. It was co-created, co-written, and produced by Dominique Besnehard.  The story line Besnehard […]

Vienna

| March 23, 2021

In December 2019, we spent two weeks in Vienna. We wanted to visit its famous Christmas markets. Also, I had to see what made Vienna the world’s most livable city. Vienna has now topped Mercer’s Quality of City Living Index for ten years in a row. It is also a perennial leader in both Monocle […]

Borgen – The Castle

| March 19, 2021

I am looking forward to 2022 for many reasons. We should be able to travel again, walk the streets unmasked, and eat in restaurants. I could keep going but by now you will know all the other things I have been missing. Also, Borgen – The Castle will be back for a fourth season. Filming […]

Transition to post-Coronavirus Life

| March 17, 2021

The time has come to start building enthusiasm for the transition to post-Coronavirus life. I, for one, cannot wait to Zoom out of conference calls and zoom in to in-person meetings. We need to recapture all those little pleasures that we took for granted. My personal list of things that I miss from my routine […]

It has been quite a year!

| March 12, 2021

One year ago today I had made the decision to cut short our escape from winter. On March 13, we were flying back to Montreal from London, two weeks early. It was disappointing to lose those last weeks. We had tickets for the opera and the ballet. There was a plan to splurge at Core […]

Homelessness

| March 9, 2021

There is a shortage of quality social and affordable housing in most Western nations. Based on pre Coronavirus statistics, there are 35,000 homeless Canadians on any given night. This does not account for the approximately 50,000 couch surfers. In Canada , over 235,000 individuals experience homelessness every year. 200,000 of these use homeless shelters. The […]

Paris is still Paris!

| March 5, 2021
Paris as the sun sets

We had rented a cottage near St-Gilles  in the Occitanie region of the south of France.  Our flights there and back were through Charles-de-Gaulle , so we decided to break up our trip  with four days in Paris before going south. We took another four days on the way back. We had spent time in […]

Fact, Fiction, and Opinion

| February 25, 2021

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill Can We Tell the Difference between Fact, Fiction, and Opinion? Are we discriminating users of information? Do we recognize that many all-news broadcasters report little fact, some fiction, but mostly they spread  opinion? Can we […]