Remembering Ivor Leclerc By Nate Thayer May 18, 2017 While perusing through my files and papers I came across a handwritten copy of an eulogy I delivered at the memorial service in May 1999 for my step father, Ivor Leclerc, held at the National Cathedral Church in Washington D.C. I found stapled to my handwritten three […]
Happy The Day After Valentine’s Day Is Finally Over: Espionage, Commercialism, and the Betrayal of Love
Happy The Day After, Finally, Valentine’s Day Is Done And Over With: Valentines Day, Espionage, Commercialism, and the Betrayal of Love “Love is whatever we can still betray…”–John Le Carré By Nate Thayer Happy Valentines Day, everyone. Or, more honestly, Happy The Day After Valentines Day is Done And Over With. Now that Valentines Day–that capitalist marketing trick […]
Memories of a Good and Great Man: Father Pierre Ceyrac
Memories of a Great and Good Man: Father Pierre Ceyrac By Nate Thayer May 2013 Amongst my myriad of youthful memories, I recall with a satisfied sense of quiet joy having spent some weeks getting to know two delightful, charming, adventurous and beautiful young French gals in the remote town of Aranyaprathet, Thailand, a deceptively […]