On Thursday, September 16, TSFE will features an overview of Amsterdam, the next global city in our Hometown series. Seen through the eyes of a local resident, in this case Marcel van Walt van Praag, he will share with us a Birdseye view of thi…
Canadian author Elisabeth de Mariaffi is our guest Wednesday August 11, to discuss her new thriller The Retreat. Set in a remote mountain resort in the Canadian Rockies, the protagonist Maeve Martin, 34, has aged out of the super competitive dance …
In our continuing series of global cities featured through the eyes of a resident, we will profile, Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Our guest will be Fabian Borrero, Entrepteneur and Adventurer. Ecuador’s flag sports the same colors as those of neig…
In our continuing series of global cities featured through the eyes of a resident, we will profile, Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Our guest will be Fabian Borrero, Entrepteneur and Adventurer. Ecuador’s flag sports the same colors as those of neig…
Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain. Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the capital of C…
Today’s preview blog features Barcelona, next in our Hometown series. Our Wednesday podcast will have Fariba Rezvani and Miguel Valls talking about their hometown in Spain. Situated in the North East corner of Spain, Barcelona is the capital of C…
Today’s blogpost previews Monday’s podcast, an interview with author Mark Shaw. His latest book, Collateral Damage, looks at the three deaths of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, JFK in 1963 and Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 and links them.What could the deaths …
Is online anonymity the primary driver of the extremist commentaries that have polarized American politics and society generally ? Tune in to Tuesday’s podcast when Professor Chris Bail who heads up the Polarization Lab at Duke, will discuss Ech…
We are launching a new series on July 8 called My Hometown. Each of the 10 episodes will feature a profile of a city and an interview with one of its residents to give us a native's sense of what it's like to live there. Covid lockdowns for the las…
Cate Holahan will be our guest on Thursday June 17 to talk about her fifth and latest thriller Her Three Lives. Cate graduated from Princeton in 2002 and pursued a career in journalism, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and Businessweek. Mult…
The G7 is a group of developed global economies - UK, USA, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy - which will meet 6/11 -13 to co-ordinate global economic policies post Covid pandemic. It is President Biden’s first trip abroad as President and PM…
Walmart and Target recently announced they would stop selling sports trading cards for the safety of their customers. Was there some terroristic bio threat to one of America's treasured childhood past times, buying collecting and trading baseball, …
The world's fertility rate has been steadily declining for the last 70 years, first in the developed world and more recently in developing countries. In 1950 for instance, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. But by 2017, …
The state of Oregon is located in the Pacific NW. With a population of 4.7 million it is about one tenth the size of California. It's climate is dictated by its geography. The western one third of the state from the Pacific Ocean, East to the Cascad…
Tuesday May 18's podcast will feature an interview with Mike Wendling, editor of BBC Trending, the BBC's weekly program that tracks social media. Mike brings an American perspective to the most British of Britain's great institutions, the BBC, still…
New Brunswick is one of Canada's 10 provinces , known as the Maritimes, along with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It borders the state of Maine to the West and South. The provincial capital is Fredericton and Moncton is another large city in …
Jaime Dimon, Chairman of JP Morgan, pictured, has told staff to come back to the office in June. He said he's done with Zoom meetings and wants the real thing. He said that young professionals want to hustle and they need to be in the office to do t…
Wednesday’s podcast is an interview with author Libby Copeland, an award winning journalist. In her latest book she takes us on a journey filled with twists and turns through America’s latest past time - online DNA testing. Read her book, or at le…
Today's blogpost is a preview of my interview with Professor Mark Rank, co-author of " Poorly Understood: What America gets wrong about poverty." Mark Rank is a social scientist and the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington …
In today's podcast I interviewed a couple who are relocating their family to North Carolina from San Francisco. It has been a tough decision for these two transplants to make. While family considerations are a major part of their concerns, so many o…
A currency is a system of money used in a particular country and regulated by its' government. The economy and the management of its currency is one of the main political objectives of political parties as they seek to be elected. Control of its cur…
In today's podcast, Martin Kuz, the West Coast correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, shared his impressions of Minneapolis, the George Floyd killing and calls for police reform in the city of Minneapolis. As a native Minnesotan and 25 yea…
Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyacan, outside Mexico City. Throughout her life, she endured much physical pain due to a bout of polio and later on, an accident on a bus. She married renowned artist and muralist Diego Rivera in 1929. But in 1930,…
Christo’s 24.5 mile Running Fence art installation across Sonoma County, dramatically dives into the Pacific Ocean near Bodega Bay. Bodega Bay was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1963 thriller/horror movie, The Birds. And Christo outdid that…