Can’t help commandeering part of a note from a friend, John Citron, received today.
“We had tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for four concerts covering all nine Beethoven Symphonies. Unfortunately, James Levine, the conductor, and incidentally Ellen’s cousin, had back surgery and was unable to conduct — so we turned back our tickets and canceled [...]
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James Levine’s back
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Memories
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just got in the mail, from John Citron in Cape Cod, a 1978 International Fact Book for the old advertising agency conglomerate Norman, Craig & Kummel, of which John was a top official and I, head of the NCK outpost in Trinidad.
Reminds me that I was Managing Director; that NCK (Trinidad) Ltd had billings of [...]
Skye
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Skye wrote today saying that her book, Barbados, has been published and is on Amazon. So she has joined Lolita and Janice as published authors. I knew that she’d been having assignments in Barbados but had no idea that she’d been putting together a publication. Good for her.
Angela and the elk
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The elk story put us in mind of the episode in Zimbabwe, years ago.
Elle said that Ed, a relative, was driving home from work with his crew when they ran into an elk — or vice versa. They pulled off to the side and got out to drag the animal off the road.
That was when [...]
I want, therefore I am
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I brought back a cache of books from San Diego and I’ll have a problem with space, but I was particularly happy with two of them, lucky finds: Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst, and a new book about Proust.
I first read abut Furst in a Bookmarks magazine some time ago, and wasn’t looking for [...]
It takes time
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not far from where I live there is empty desert space between Snowflake and Holbrook, and a prime location for wind farms.But there is objection on the grounds, as some would have it, that these windmills are unlovely and would mar the arid landscape.
Turns out the Dutch, with whom one inevitably associates windmills, once didn’t [...]
“R” is for what?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Julian Bond got into trouble, some time back, for mentioning what he called the Taliban wing of the Republican party. Maybe he was on to something. After last month’s frothings and Joe Wilson’s spectacular lack of couth during the president’s address to Congress last night, one has to wonder.
But all the hysteria had an up [...]
A sane voice
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here, to rinse the bile from the last blog, is the droll purveyor of A Prairie Home Companion, Mr. Garrson Keillor, on a serious note.
Keillor was asked the following question in the Proust Questionnaire feature of this month’s Esquire magazine: Which living person do you most admire? And here is his answer.
My president, a heroic [...]
The hope and the prayer
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In just six months we have gone from euphoria at Obama’s ascendancy, when it seemed the U.S was entering an era of enlightenment, to charges of death panels, the president as Hitler, Death to Obama signs, the birther lunacy and the rise of right wing militia — all in a violent and spectacular denial of [...]
Janice’s book is out!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Congratulations are in order. Janice got her story published so we now have another published writer* in the family – I definitely have to catch up.
Lisa and the Light Dancer, a story for children, came out recently and we were thrilled when daughter Holly called to say it was on Amazon. The book is based [...]
Red Stripe
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you noticed? One of the beers the President will have on hand for the Crowley-Gates summit at the White House this week will be Jamaican Red Stripe, one of two beers Professor Gates is said to be partial to.
Red Stripe, like reggae, does seem to get around. Even here in Show Low, population 11,000, [...]
Hummerfest
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The great gathering of hummingbirds and fans at the Sipe Nature Center has ended for this year and 800 visitors were on hand to celebrate.
This event is held the last Saturday in July, every year, and is growing: last year 600 drove to the center just outside the town of Eager, and today we drove [...]
