I’m going on a week’s vacation in the beginning of July to Canada. I’ll be staying at a friend’s cottage on a lake somewhere in the woods. It won’t be 103 like it is in Austin, there’ll be swimming every day, and I’ll get to read as much as I like. Yet, when I mention [...]

I probably shouldn’t write posts like this after a couple of glasses of wine, but I saw an article/obituary in the NY Times this morning about Isadore E. Millstone who I had never heard of before, but after reading that article, was really moved by who he was, especially for the city of St. Louis. [...]

I mentioned in my last post that, for my birthday, I got an Amazon Kindle. I’ve actually named it my “Fondle” because I love it so much ;-) I couldn’t figure out why it was reminding me of being a kid until I remembered this… When my sister and I were little, my parents (of [...]

I just had friends in from out of town – visiting from Austria, actually. I lived over there for a year about 20 years ago, and am still friends with one woman in particular. She and her husband came to the States for a vacation and I was just struck with how differently they handled [...]