Can you believe that in the US if you want to telephone the Internal Revenue Service to ask a question about how to file your taxes they no longer have people who will talk to you? My son Jeremy did
In no particular order is my updated list of Favorite Hideaways from places that I have visited over the past 15 years — about 300 properties visited during that time. To be on this list, the property has to excel
While I was walking my 7 year old son Jeremy to school, he popped the question: He asked me if I prefer Jackson Pollock to Matisse. That day he came home and asked me to find him an image of
A friend said to me “You know why we get to vote in the US? Because our votes don’t matter.” I thought that was amazingly profound. My wife was in a wine store looking for a small amount of an
I reached a milestone today. After a quarter century of roommates and a wife, I had to password protect my PC at home. Done in by my 7 year old who decided he likes going to Amazon and seeing what
First a few global thoughts about some world issues, and then travel notes of our family vacation to Evian, Paris, Bavaria, Venice and Florence. See these places again for the first time, with the kids. Middle East –I have been
We told the kids about our upcoming summer vacation to Europe. Elizabeth was very upset that she was going to miss trip day at day camp. Jeremy held us up for close to 10 minutes while he went to the
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while but you’ll see that I’ve been traveling a bit and doing a lot. I’ve also collected a few really funny stories to share. The global stuff follows these vignettes and there are travel
I was listening to the Angry Birds theme song as my kid was playing the game, and I figured it could be a Hassidic tune right out of some klezmer village in Eastern Europe. If someone in my synagogue started
I saw the funniest thing when I went to my son’s school to watch him play in a chess tournament. He sat silently, followed the rules and behaved like an adult. His 7 year old opponent put his hand across
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