Bourbon
So … the nice lady asks me what I would like to drink. I answer “Bourbon, please.” Blank stare. “What is bourbon?” I scrambled to define...
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Philip Ammerman
- Apr 29
A LETTER TO AEGEAN
Dear Sir, Madam, I issued my one-way ticket ATH-LCA on Aegean A390 at an insanely high price (EUR 243.85 / Lite) for a 90 minute flight....
Philip Ammerman
- Dec 24, 2021
Making Decisions Based on Weakness
It’s December 24th and as I sit in my apartment in Limassol, cleaning up this year’s mess and reflecting on the next year, I understand...
Philip Ammerman
- Apr 18, 2021
On Food and Archetypes
For those of you parents of a certain age who watched Disney’s 2007 movie, Ratatouille, there is a scene towards the end where the food...
Philip Ammerman
- Feb 1, 2021
Sand, Wind and War
Memory is a strange thing. A long time ago (1992?) at Princeton I was reading up on sedimentation and somehow came across RA Bagnold’s...
Philip Ammerman
- Oct 28, 2020
Notes from a Visit to Delphi
In Greece, we are blessed with sites that are magical in the human vision they convey. Delphi is one such site. There is a strange energy...
Philip Ammerman
- Sep 17, 2020
LETTER FROM PARIS
This evening the looming disaster of the coronavirus took on a new dimension for me. I’ll illustrate this with a series of anecdotes.