The issues single moms face can be remarkably alike across cultures. In my reading of translated books I’ve come across four that talk about single moms facing various kinds of difficulties and handing them in different ways. Who knows? Maybe some of these books offer ideas or perhaps hope for…

You’re finally going to make that cross-country trip this summer that you have been thinking about for years! You’ll travel with a good friend, he or she. There are three things you must agree on before you start: the music, the food and the route. Classical or heavy metal? Fine…

Begin with a state founded on the principle of religious liberty — Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and other refugees from those maypole-bashing, stiff-necked Puritans from that state to the north. Add all those Italian and French Canadian and Irish and Portuguese mill workers. Make most of them Catholic. Organize them…

Here are five brief reviews of translated novels about political terror in Latin America. There’s a lot of terror to go around, so we’ll look at stories from Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia. I’ll give a short review and provide a link to my more extensive review of each…

Looking for an exotic spot for your summer vacation? How about Baffin Island, Canada. Exotic doesn’t have to be tropical, does it? Baffin Island is a paradise for wildlife viewing. You can see polar bears, Arctic foxes and wolves, many species of geese and ducks, snowy owls, seals, walruses, narwhals…

A series of 5 posts on Connecticut. Links below. You can learn a lot about a state from its nickname(s). Connecticut’s official nickname is “The Constitution State” because its colonial constitution, “The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,” adopted in 1639, became a model for the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution State is…

Rhode Island: The smallest state in area and maybe the ‘bluest’ state? Here are a series of five short posts that I’ve organized in sequence in case you missed some. The One Minute Geographer: About Rhode Island There’s an old Guy Lombardo big band song that’s called Poor, Little Rhode Island. Well, the little part is right…jimwfonseca.medium.com

This series of posts looks at Texas presidential voting and its impact on presidential elections. Texas is considered a reliably red (Republican) state. But what if Texas left the Union? How would that have affected the outcome of recent Presidential elections? Let My Texas People Go The Impact of Texas Electoral Votes on Presidential Elections Since 1972jimwfonseca.medium.com 2) Now we think of Texas as a reliably…

If you are new to the One Minuter Geographer, or if you missed some, here are links to the 15 posts of This Fragile Earth 1. Have you ever driven 500 miles in a day? (Was that fun?) If you could drive the circumference of the earth…