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...

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...

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...

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...