Any regular reader of this blog site knows that I'm old, for I live at 15 Craigside, a seniors' community in Honolulu.   For the past 15 years I've taken two lengthy trips/year, at least half a dozen being global, that is, around the world....usually about two months long.   More recently, cruises have encroached, as our most recent journey involved a Norwegian Encore 39-day sail from Seattle to Southampton (UK), plus a Viking Tir European Christmas cruise of 14 days from Amsterdam to Budapest.  Our next extravaganza in a month will involve flying to Kansai Airport, Japan, to participate in the Osaka World Expo, then an Oceania cruise from Yokohama to Vancouver. However, I've come to that point in life when I am beginning to enjoy life more at home than not.  Nothing fancy. Mostly writing this daily blog, something I have been daily doing for almost 17 years My first posting was on  29April2008 . You know how long this has been? Beginning with kinderga...

  First of all, there is no connection between Sea Asparagus and Death.  These are two different subjects.  The first has to do with an alert about one of my postings that failed to be published, but is now available.  Secondly, maybe President Donald Trump's various threats are working.  From the  New York Times  this morning: Since taking office, Trump has told several nations he would tax imports from their countries if they didn’t do what he wants. He said he would put a 25 percent tariff on products from Canada and Mexico and a 10 percent tariff on products from China  unless those countries stopped flows of drugs and migrants into the United States . He has also said he would put tariffs on Russia for waging war in Ukraine and on Denmark if it refused to cede the territory of Greenland. Colombia’s quick capitulation ( about accepting back illegal migrants)  this weekend may embolden Trump, raising questions for the rest of the world abo...