Author Archives: The View from a Broad

Airplanes provide a perfect ‘in between realities’ break: I’m not home, I’m not on vacation, I’m not at work, I’m not with anybody, but I’m not alone. I’m not really anywhere, I’m somewhere else instead. I was just flying over some rugged young mountains with snow gleaming from their eastern slopes. Now what I’m seeingContinue reading “In Between Place”

I’m grateful for kippers and carrots. Not my usual breakfast but a simple healthy change of pace. I’m grateful for hot showers and clean tap water. Think how we can drink safely from our kitchen sink! I’m grateful for face creams and foot massages. I’m grateful for yoga and qigong, the 7-minute workout app andContinue reading “Kippers and Carrots”

My daughter, Sadie, was denied the right to tell this story publicly – fear of defamation charges, I guess. So I will tell it from my perspective: A bit of background first – her brother, Terry, had just scraped together 18,000 euros to start his plastic reclamation business on the Kenyan coast, despite the global pandemic,Continue reading “Christmas in Malindi 2020”

Somewhere there exists a picture of me the summer I turned 11 in front of a herd of longhorn. I was being run around, through and almost over by a stampede. Unlike Mufasa from the lion king, I survived to tell the tale by standing perfectly still. Also they were moving slowly, while my motherContinue reading “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

As I mature and learn more about the world, I am becoming more and more of a proud conspiracy theorist… I have always known about not trusting the military industrial complex – Good old Ike Eisenhower warned us about that before I was even born. And one of my earliest memories is marching around cityContinue reading “Conspiracy Theories?”

Sure you can The truly most blessed 1% of humans on this planet are NOT the richest 7 million people out there – Not by any stretch of the imagination. That 1%’s monetary wealth makes them no better then the rest of us. According to some gurus I have met on-line recently People like JeffContinue reading “I Can Have It All!”

Random question: Why do all those who live in Arizona and California – where it never rains – use energy guzzling laundry dryers, while we in rainy London and Paris put our clothes on the line to dry in our tiny pied-a-terres? Living as a housewife in Paris for more than ten years – IContinue reading “My First Blog Post – this time”

As an American Refugee to France I am lucky enough to have landed on my feet in this civilized city and I plan to make the most of my new home. I have tried many different careers over the years – but was never able to fit my family’s needs in on top of anythingContinue reading “Lili Fulton Was Here”