Q: I’m getting my second vaccine shot in ten days. Will I be able to travel safely then? (Wondering about“vaccine shot” . . . Is that a redundancy?) A: As far as I’ve been able to find out, yes . . . probably! . . . you can travel after you have completed your shot…
We had some old and very good friends over here yesterday. They brought their own food and we sat on our deck for almost three hours—each couple at a small table at least eight feet apart. It was nice. No, it was more than that: it was wonderful! We forget that we’re social animals ….
Note: What follows is an extended comment from a regular reader from Belgium. His observations are so interesting, I am using them in full below . . . with many thanks. European, here. We don’t use trains to travel the width of the continent, either (well, some exceptions exist, I’m one of them, but we…
When my daughter was a sophomore in college, she had the unique opportunity to spend a semester attending classes in France and living with a French family. There was a 10-day break in the middle of that term and to my delight and my wife’s consternation, our daughter took off, traveling around the country on…