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September 15, 2010 Dallas, Texas USA Think about all the various things most people depend on as they go about their days… they get up in the morning, flip the switch, and the lights come on. One turn of the faucet and the water starts running. They open the refrigerator to a cornucopia
September 14, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA It’s true that no one is an island. The concept of a community is one of the basic building blocks of the human experience, and we have been building communities since we first walked the earth. Traditionally, human beings formed families, and families became tribes. These were
September 10, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA I’ve really enjoyed reading so many of your insightful comments over the last few days as we’ve engaged in a serious discussion about the Age of Turmoil. Like you, I hate to dwell on the negative, but I think it’s critical to frame the solutions we’ve only
September 9, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA How would you feel if a gang of criminals broke into your home, stole your most valuable possessions, and then went on national TV to claim it was for your own good? My guess is that you would be pretty angry. Yet this is essentially what our
September 3, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA I’ve been really humbled by all the well-wishing emails and comments this week about my father’s health. He’s doing much better, but it’s good for us to spend some time together. As I’m sure you’ll agree, there’s really nothing more important than health; all the money, freedom,
September 2, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA The late, great comedian George Carlin once said, “I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” Carlin wasn’t a fringe lunatic or conspiracy theorist by any stretch; he was simply an intelligent man who had the courage
September 1, 2010 Dallas, Texas, USA I’ve been on the ground in the United States for less than 48-hours, and it’s already become clear to me that this country is in need of some therapy. The American public seems to be getting a steady diet of negativity from the media– headlines are incredibly
August 30, 2010 Frankfurt Airport, Germany Though I’m penning this letter to you from the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, I will likely be somewhere over Nova Scotia by the time you receive it. My father is quite ill– I’m traveling to the United States to see him, as well as attend to some
August 27, 2010 Vilnius, Lithuania I’m really excited about something. While I have no Polish ancestry, I thought it might be useful to you if I found and published a reliable immigration resource while I was in Poland a few weeks ago. After spending a lot of time interviewing various attorneys and testing
August 24, 2010 Paris, France Yesterday I wrote to you about Sophia Antipolis, a beautiful place in the South of France that’s just about perfect for expats with families who don’t want to make any compromises… what I call the “Internationalists” from the 7 expat categories. Today I want to tell you about
August 23, 2010 Somewhere in France I’ve spent the weekend exploring a wonderful place in the south of France that definitely has something for everyone. I recognize that there are a lot of people interested in expatriation… but they’re picky. Maybe they don’t feel safe in some countries, don’t want to deal with
August 20, 2010 Paris, France I met a French couple last week when I was vacationing in the Tatra mountains of southern Poland, and I had a rather rude awakening: my French has gotten terribly rusty. I stammer in mid-sentence and fill the awkward gaps with Spanish and Portuguese words as an odd
August 19, 2010 Krakow, Poland I took a short tour to the Auschwitz museum a few days ago. It was my second time there, and I still lack the words to adequately describe the experience. If you’ve ever been to the Grand Canyon and seen that vast expansiveness first hand, you probably thought
August 17, 2010 Krakow, Poland I opened up the papers a few days ago, and the top story really surprised me. The Russian government announced that it was banning grain and flour exports through the rest of the year. Belarus and Kazakhstan may do the same. Russia is dealing with record drought and
August 16, 2010 Zakopane, Poland I am a mountain person. There’s something about peaks that just makes my heart sing; I’ll take fresh mountain air over beaches any day of the week. The really interesting thing about the mountains, though, is how unpredictable and unforgiving they can be. I was given a friendly