by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Is the world ever going to be the same again? It can’t be. COVID 19 is the canary in the coal mine. It’s changing the power balance between traditional “superpowers”. The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a 5,000 person aircraft carrier patrolling the South China Sea, was...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
You surprise yourself with how shocked you are that servers in a restaurant outside your community are NOT wearing plastic gloves. Eating at home was never so appealing! In an effort to wash your hands long enough, you find yourself silently singing “Happy...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Granted, these are spectacularly strange times. Orwellian, really. Today was Day One…Ground Zero if you like that term, of a shift in perception. I should have been waking up in Orange County. Am I disappointed? Honestly, no. But I am in danger of getting bored,...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Aug 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
there’s our captain greeting the car ahead of us. 5:40am The BC Ferries tagline, “Welcome Aboard” has never been so fitting. I never thought these words would cross my lips about a government-run monopoly. “I’m impressed”. It really rubs against my...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Apr 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
men in Delhi Even though India is in my rear-view mirror as I am now immersed back into my west-coast Canadian routines, I find it is on my mind every day. Have you noticed how you get asked, or you ask yourself, “what were the highlights?” of recent...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Apr 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
How incredibly stupid. The pink scarf’s “esteemed” standing is now in serious jeopardy. But I am getting ahead of myself. Our last stop on this fast-paced vacation is to get-up-at-3:30am to leave Mussoorie and catch our 7:20 flight to Varanasi in...
