Bertie's Mood

Always Critical and Never Superficial

Month: April 2015

  • The South 2015: Tuesday March 31st 2015: Lithonia, GA

    The South 2015: Tuesday March 31st 2015: Lithonia, GA

    As you drive into Lithonia, very few clues are there to convince you this is much more than a commuter town. A Wal-Mart ungraciously displays it presence and it is joined in its omnipresence by every brand of fuel or motor oil known in America as I am leaving the East Expressway. Tucked away in…

  • The South 2015: Monday March 30th, 2015. Brussels – Atlanta, GA.

    The South 2015: Monday March 30th, 2015. Brussels – Atlanta, GA.

    Have ever noticed that the week before your vacation is often the busiest and more important week at work? All of a sudden everybody needs you, you are deemed irreplaceable and “who is going to do all the work while you’re gone?” is asked more than once during the daily coffee breaks leading up to…

  • The South 2015: chronicles of the unexpected

    The South 2015: chronicles of the unexpected

    Only so few times in a lifetime you take on a journey where you feel a chronicler and an explorer like Pedro Cieza de Leon. Open, inquisitive and with respect for local culture he wrote down his observations of what was then Peru. Not that I am about to detail an expedition with reports of…