URombo, Me Bernadette

Attempting (yet again) to post on YouTube, I started from scratch and created “My Channel.”  Wow, I’m important.  My own channel.  Not sure what it meant but I went for it.  It asked for my avatar.  My what?  Er, do I have my own god who descended to...

Berni and the British Bluebonnets

Texas Bluebonnet: lupinus texensis, a perennial herbaceous plant from the lupin family. CENTRAL TEXAS.  Drove from Austin to Bastrop today.  Recent rain after the epic 2011 drought has brought out the best wildflowers I’ve seen in 20 years: Indian Paintbrushes,...

Tea and Other Things in Tripoli

I don’t thank Col. Gaddafi for many things but I will acknowledge that he’s given me fodder for many of my stories, and for this, my first official blog post.   When I read early this morning that Big G, as my fellow expats and I used to call him, had been...

The Creation of a Monster

I may have created a monster with this but here is my new blog. No idea how to use it or why I should add another form of media to my already complicated life but nevertheless, here it is. I’ll try only to post when I’ve something worth saying or a joke...