I sat down to write this column the day after Justin Trudeau won a second term as Canada’s prime minister. He lost the popular vote and his Liberal Party lost its majority in the House of Commons. To the surprise of many observers, the Bloc Québécois, a party that promotes Québec independence and which had appeared very weak early in […]

Susan and I are now Texas residents! After four days of driving, our little Honda brought us safely to Austin, capital of the Lone Star State. As Susan remarked, we feel as if we have traveled through time and space and woken up in another land. (We arrived to experience Austin’s second-hottest August on record with 27 days at or […]