Category: Musings

  • What was a niche discussion twenty-two years ago, goes mainstream. Moral Panic.

    A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by news media, fueled by politicians, and often results in the passage of new laws or policies…

  • #ThrowbackThursday Early years.

    I found this on an old NFN web page about its volunteers. Here is what I wrote in December 2002 After 10 years in Restaurant Management in Germany I not only changed my profession but also the country I live in and came to Naples in August 1998. Christian, my hubby, was relocated by his…

  • Quote: Gertrude Stein in Picasso

    Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, theya have something in common, that they do not need religion or mysticism not to belive in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it. In fact reality for them is not real and that is why there…

  • Naples Real Estate Market 1998 – 2010

    Over the last few months we have seen a new development being started along Livingston Road. Yesterday we saw actually houses being built. We don’t know if that is actually a contracted house or a socalled SpecHouse the developer started for showing and as a sales office. It seems they also started to build the…