Oldenburg on the Cape & a book giveaway
End of summer tidbits from shore to shore
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Writing by humans, No A.I. | UK Hopium
A small rant but also a tip about reducing the A.I. intrusion in our lives and some good news from the UK
From distant lands
Friends in farflung places remind us that this is a small world after all
Beach reading for the times we live in
McNeill, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Tolstoy
The Bar Parliaments of Finland
First in a series about third places around the world
We all need a Happy Hour
A conversation with Jim Peters, president of the Responsible Hospitality Institute
Can you have a real third place online?
Propinquity & Hill Street Blues
China, India, Hungary, Finland, Ukraine
Third-place stories from around the world
Tavern Talk: a postscript to the US 250th
Let's not underestimate the political importance of third places
An MOU for "Friendship and Cooperation"
What's an MOU for, and what's it worth?
Life and poetry: Sheila Mitchell Keating (1925-2026)
The podcast we never made
The death of conversation
AI prey and the bizarre appeal of writing "prompts"
Are we being indoctrinated?
Left or right, our minds narrow and voices fall silent if we don't keep thinking and talking, and laughing