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I regularly go back and listen to the song that gave us the name of our blog. This is the ‘Life and Times of Gary & Denise Flanders’

We were in downtown LA in The Jewelry District visiting one of our favorite places, The Last Bookstore. Feeling a bit peckish Denise looked around on her phone and found The Grand Central Market. It is an amazing place to find any type of food you could imagine. It is fun just to walk through…

The earth flag. This is John McConnell’s design that he submitted to the UN in 1969. The dark blue field represents the atmosphere. In the center is what became known as ‘the blue marble’ with white being clouds, and light blue the oceans. This flag came to represent environmental awareness and then in 1970, it…

The state of Connecticut. It is the third smallest state and the 29th most populated. It has the highest per-capita income in the country. The word Connecticut is derived from Anglicized spelling of the Algonquian word for ‘Long Tidal River’. The spouse and I have debated for many years how to pronounce Connecticut. I am…

The island republic of Seychelles. It is composed of 115 islands found in the Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles from Kenya Africa and 700 miles northeast of Madagascar. This set of islands was known for centuries to traders who would sail past it. As is common the islands were ‘claimed’ by a number of countries. It…

Honest, simple, touching, hilarious, no one could write songs like the former mailman from Chicago. Denise and I joked this should be our song at our 50th Anniversary in September. Adios John, you will be missed n

Today is national flag day in the Republic of Albania. Americans have a bad habit of being woefully unaware of the beauty and majesty of most of Eastern Europe. Albania is located in Southeast Europe on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. It has an ancient history filled with names like Ottoman Empire and Kings whose…

The national flag of Australia. It consists of a blue field with what we call the Union Jack in the canton (the upper left, hoist side) this is similar to the British Maritime Ensign. The field is, the proper term is ‘defaced’, with the commonwealth star. The Commonwealth Star is a 7 pointed star denoting…

A truly beautiful flag, the erstwhile (thank you Dictionary.com word of the day) flag of the state of Maine. This was the official Maine Flag from 1901 to 1909. Then, as is true of so many things, the politicians got involved and adopted a truly ugly flag. The flag from 1909 to present has been…

The flag of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It is made up of Canberra, the capital of the Nation of Australia and several small townships. Canberra is the home to all of the federal government institutions of Australia. In a sense, ACT is somewhat similar to our Washington DC. ACT was the ancestral home to…