It arrived sometime this year, though not in our neighborhood. So this is my first visit. I don’t know if it is true that they ship in the water, but I am betting they do, because the coffee here is so much better than everyplace else. I also appreciate that, in this crowded airport, […]
Man, it has been relentless lately! The new schtick tends to follow the form of, “Wow! I really like your blog! So interesting, so insightful, so wonderful! Would you please check out my disgusting/pornographic/ otherwise totally unacceptable web page? Here’s the link! Thanks!!!”
Very disheartening to see each day that I […]
No, it’s been more than that, actually, since the elevator stopped working. I think now is the time to start taking bets — sort of like a baby pool — about when (or if) the damn thing will ever function again. To inform your guesses, I offer the following:
1. We live in […]
. . for about a week. This trip is a follow up to my visit in February 2006.
To get re-oriented, I checked yesterday’s news on Google about current events in Cambodia. The headlines revealed the following:
(a) Prime Minister Hun Sen has publicly disavowed his gay daughter;
(b) The courts just had their […]
We live close to Victory College, a large public high school that was once one of Egypt’s most elite. Although its buildings are old and carry the 800,000 layers of dust that you find most places in Cairo, the school has a large set of fields where Evie’s soccer league plays its games every […]
1. When I was in Afghanistan, I worked with swell J.D., a laugh-a-minute 30-something southern guy who, though enormously effective in his role coordinating our commercial law and trade assessment, routinely bemoaned his cubicle-bound daily grind back in the States. Not long after he returned home, he received an offer to actually work in […]
She writes:
Here is a list of the books I’ve read within the last year that I recommend to others. Books are listed in no particular order, and each title is presented without comment, but I’d love to talk about any of the books with anybody! I’ve also read books I haven’t liked (and […]
Yesterday as I was on my brisk walk, I vaguely noted a light blue sedan doing a three-point turn at the intersection of Road 9 and Road 83. It didn’t seem near to my path, until it was. Again, I didn’t think much — two years in the land of the extremely scarce sidewalk, and […]
Dance with scarves to “Hockey Night in Canada” and Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away.” See how far all the playing cards in the house will go, if placed side by side. Make an omelet. Play the word and trivia games in found the “Kid’s Atlas of the United States.” Read the IHT. Read Charlie […]
We are repeat customers of her magnificent Halloween costumes, made to order. Below: Laura Ingals and the Jaguar.