A good Saturday morning, Alan,   Re: email - that is fairly safe unless you have many followers who read each other's responses to your posts. You didn't say why you want a pen pal. A book I read not so long ago was about a pen pal relationship of Ge...

Yes, indeed, Vienna and Austria are hard acts to follow. When I first came to Los Angeles I found it to be a cultural desert, hell bent on everything movies and nothing else. In many ways it still lacks in culture, the kind I grew up in. But with pas...

Hi, Alan... I lived through the aftermath of WWII. It was not pretty or easy by any means.You are revealing a great deal of personal information about your family. Lest you forget, this is a public forum and many people view the posts. I am not sure ...

Alan, In reading your emails I feel you have several pen pals; perhaps even confuse locations and what you write to whom.It doesn't matter to me how many pen pals you have, I only ask that you, please, are more attentive when reading your emails, oth...

Hi, Alan... Anyone who does not have the "herd" mentality is an outlier in my book.In the email about my name I told you very specifically which country I am from. I suppose you missed it. Oh, well...There was no TV in Europe when I was a kid. Lucky ...