Posts tagged “history”

“They’re espadrilles but they’re flat,” my wife said to me in Rome with the same mistaken confidence it would be understood as if I’d remarked to her that Chamberlain should never have been fooled by the Stresa Conference and appeasement was always destined to fail.

Crossing the Rubicon

Crossing the Rubicon

There’s no turning back …

“If you want the future to be different from the present, study the past.”
Benedict Spinoza

#FridayFive: Great Podcasts

#FridayFive: Great Podcasts

In which I recommend more podcasts

Happy Birthday, Teddy

Happy Birthday, Teddy

Teddy Roosevelt, the Original Rough Rider

#FridayFive: Roman Holiday

#FridayFive: Roman Holiday

My favorite places in the city on seven hills

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.