Below is a letter from Sara Blumenstein, Becky’s youngest sister. She is a senior at the University of Chicago and the acceptance letters from architecture school are rolling in. As you can see, she recently began adpoting an architecture school look.. page boy haircut and clunky glasses and all. I’m sure that some of you […]
I found this story to be pretty damn warped. It also made me remember going to Pitt basketball games as a kid and my dad screaming at the cheerleaders, “That’s dangerous! Someone is going to break their neck!” It was sort of embarrassing, but I guess he was right. Tangentially, it also was not unusual […]
Brother-in-law Jon Kessler writes: I know I don’t contribute much to this forum(something about sharing your private thoughts withany stranger who happens on the site is a littleunsettling) but a recent occurance has prompted thisshout out. A few hours before our plane was to takeoff for our recent family trip to Aspen, Laura hung upthe […]
THE EXPAT LIFEBy ALAN PAUL The Backstreet Boys LureAn Unlikely Fan in Beijing Though I wouldn’t cross the street to see the Backstreet Boys back home, I recently trekked from one end of Beijing to the other to see the past-their-prime boy band perform at the Capital Gymnasium. After nearly two decades of attending concerts […]
We are not out of the woods with Eli quite yet. His leg is about 85 percent well healed, but the remaining 15 percent is infected and looking pretty nasty though I have been assured it is a superficial infection requiring nothing more than cleanliness, anitbiotic cream and daily dressing changes. Without going through all […]
Jacob is year 3 so this applies to him. Pretty funny, methinks. To fully appreciate it, you’d have to see this guy, who looks exactly like you thik he looks. The “best dressed” is the tie and blazer. To: Parents of Students in Years 3 and above Dear Parents, Best Dressed Uniform With effect from […]
David Kann checked in from Carlisle, PA, with the following letter. For those of you who don’t know, DK is a lifelong friend, who is more like a brother, not withstanding the inconvenient fact that my actual brother’s name is also David. There is no Jewish person ebtween the ages of 30-50 who does not […]