The World According to Mitch

Note From Mitch: You may have noticed a drastic shift in my blogging from Hong Kong to Malaysia.  Arriving in Malaysia and especially outside the relative safety of Kuala Lampur I realized that there were real issues that I had to concern myself with - as a Jew and an Israeli (though traveling on...

There was a time when I would have been paying closer attention to these things... but not only did I have more time, the world - my world - was a much smaller place. In 1983 my parents took me to Chicago to an event, and I got to see the Sears Tower, since 1974 the tallest building in the world. It...