Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues

“I hit the city and I lost my band. I know that some of you don’t understand.”-Neil Young (hat tip to ML “Howlin” Wolfe in Ovieda, Spain)Oh, how I miss my band.It's been a lingering, slowly simmering feeling of loss. I just loved…

Sick and twisted

I simply can not believe this.

Read this

I thought this was a very wise and insightful article in the Economistabout why we should be recruiting highly educated immigrants instead of cracking down on their visas. Just scroll down to "Idiocracy" and check it out.

Cousin Jesse rules!

We went down to Delaware a week or two ago to see Emma as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun - or half of Annie Oakley,anyhow. In the first half of the play Annie was a tall statuesque African American girl. There was an intermission and Annie…

Cousin Jesse rules!

We went down to Delaware a week or two ago to see Emma as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun - or half of Annie Oakley,anyhow. In the first half of the play Annie was a tall statuesque African American girl. There was an intermission and Annie…

Ok, thanks

Thanks for the comments and emails. Good to know there are eyes out there. I will keep blogging. Like I said, it really does help me process my life.Here are some photos of Linda and Eric, our Chinese teachers and friends, as per last column.

Catching Up

So I obviously haven’t been writing much up here. There are a lot of factors. For one thing, i don’t really have much of a sense that there’s anyone reading this and that tends to drain one’s enthusiasm and motivation. But it is important…

In response to below comment….

I thought I would post this here instead of as a response but I am responding to comment on previous post...You raise lots of good points. I am nt a political writer, nor do I aspire to be. This was not deep analysis but off the cuff thoughts…

Obama’s speech

My first thoughts: his enthusiasm is refreshing, his optimism what we need right now. Just seeing him standing there with Biden and Pelosi sitting behind him is a bit surreal and rather wonderful after years of seeing W swagger mindlessly with…

Hanover trip

We took for along weekend in Hanvoer, NH. Jacob and eli only hve MOnday and Tuesday off and we wanted to get away but didn't have time or energy to go far. so we went to Hanover to get som fresh air, do a little skiing and visit our old friends…