Happy Birthday

March 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Family |

Tonight we took daugh­ter C. out to the Crab­house in Edge­wa­ter for her 18th birth­day. This raises the eter­nal ques­tion, how can I have an 18-year-old daugh­ter when I’m barely 18 myself?crabhouse

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Duplicity

March 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Movies |

It’s a win­ning kind of movie with a mouse­trap plot and some clever twists and turns along the way, and a cast that that makes it look easy.

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Crocuses

March 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |

Ah, another sign that spring is here. This nice bunch was found lurk­ing under a wooden bench in my side yard. Hid­ing from the squir­rels, per­haps.
crocuses

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NYSAE Concert This Sunday

March 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

Sun­day at 3 p.m., an all-classical pro­gram of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Silas Huff con­ducts, Andrew Janss is the soloist in a Haydn ‘cello concerto.

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The Inauguration

March 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Travelogues |

Allelujah
The New York Times’ Maira Kalman’s illus­trated trip down to the inau­gu­ra­tion is a thing of beauty.

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Let’s Play “Who Wants To Write The Federal Budget”

March 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

What’s wrong with this? Well, lack of num­bers for one.

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Travelers’ Advisory

March 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Comedy |


Prague’s Franz Kafka Inter­na­tional Named World’s Most Alien­at­ing Airport

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America’s Wackiest Congresswoman, At It Again

March 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

With Kath­leen Har­ris hav­ing fouled out, the man­tle goes to Michelle Bach­mann of Min­nesota. Today she’s heard grilling Tim Gei­th­ner and Ben Bernanke on the new bailout plans. Let’s lis­ten in…

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Old Timers Day

March 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Family, Home |

We had a nice sur­prise yes­ter­day, a cou­ple of our for­mer nan­nies dropped by for a visit.
Claire, Linda and Carolyn

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Old Dog Learns New Trick

March 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |

And they said it couldn’t be done. Brandy is a shep­herd mix we got from the pound back in 2001 when she was about a year-and-a-half old. So in dog years, she’s push­ing 70. One of the au pairs we had when the kids were lit­tle trained her to know that, when we gave her a […]

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Broken Recipe?

March 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food |

I’m a pretty solid cook, if I do say so myself. But this one flum­moxed me. Any ideas?

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The Bar Has Just Been Raised

March 19th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Comedy |

Meet the nerdi­est men on this (or any other) planet

19trek-600

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