We just returned from a family trip to the United Arab Emirates including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the Empty Quarter desert, Petra and Amman in Jordan, and Rome. You can read about it in a separate posting by clicking on
In this edition, you can read notes on our recent family visit to Spain during the Thanksgiving week holiday. We visited Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Seville, Cordoba and Barcelona. We traded sun for cooler weather, some rain but less crowds and
I haven’t published for a few months and you might have been wondering what we did with our summer vacation. Following the discussion portion of this posting, there are travel notes on trips to Tennessee, Oregon/Washington, Norway, Quebec Canada,
I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, went back to bed, and then it hit me. There is something profound here in this very ordinary act. First, some background: The previous day and night I
Isn’t it a bit weird that you can take a gun to school but you can’t bring food that was made in a facility that uses nuts? Another question: Why do some states spend $9,000 per year per student on
It is in fashion to blame Russia for America’s funk with democracy, but history is replete with bogeymen who are blamed for society’s ills. We should take whatever is in fact happening as a wake-up call to look at ourselves
For over 10 years, when I go into the subway station during the day I know there’s an elderly guy playing piano and singing songs who is really groovy. He does well there because even I give him a buck
Our daughter Elizabeth has finally reached the age of 12 and we celebrated her coming of age in a religious ceremony known as the Bat Mitzvah. We didn’t want to do the disco party, especially since we hear about kids
Last night was Halloween. Jeremy spent a whole rainy Sunday decorating our front door as you can see. Since we live in a city, you can walk down the street in costume and merchants give you treats. Jeremy dressed up
An observation at the airport: I was on a flight from Boston to New York on a 737 which seats roughly 165 people, and there were 75 people on the line in Groups 1 or Group 2 (25 and 50
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