David Bouchier: A Few Well Chosen Words
David Bouchier’s weekly essays are full of unexpected observations and whimsical opinions. Listeners will relish his entertaining, enlightening, and sometimes exasperated commentaries on the routines that carry us through the year, the surreal rituals of politics, the unsettling experience of foreign travel, and the confusions and comedies of everyday suburban life. You can hear David Bouchier on-air Monday mornings or by subscribing to this podcast.
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Last week we spent several hours in the cabin of a brand new state-of-the art Boeing airliner, trying to hear a stream of announcements that were all but… -
When we say "The South we usually mean the group of red states below the Mason-Dixon Line that share a particular history and culture. In Europe "The…
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Paris was looking good last week, but then it always does. It is full of Parisians, of course, and most them speak French in that annoying way they have.…
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Our family legend (and I stress the word "legend) claims that my father's great-great grandfather fled from France to England in 1804, when Napoleon…
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It's no accident that the English word "travel" comes from the French word travaille, meaning work. The work of preparing for a long trip is enough to…
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It’s graduation week at thousands of colleges and universities. The gowns and mortarboards will soon be returned to the rental companies in various states…
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You might imagine that, out here in the leafy suburbs of Long Island, I have a quiet, stress-free life with nothing to worry about except squirrels on the…
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From time to time we are all called upon to give advice to a friend or family member who is feeling gloomy, or lonely, or just plain bored with life.…
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After what seemed like a long time crawling around on the floor I learned to walk at the age of about fourteen months, and I've been walking ever since. I…
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Wednesday will be Earth Day. So what should we do? Back in the 1970s, when Earth Day began, the answer was fairly simple: plant a tree, raise…
