This zoo opened in the 1970s — it is one of the earlier attempts at blending consciousness about the environmental needs and comfort of animals with the benefits to humans of learning about what lives in the natural world both beyond and within North America. We took two trains and quite a long bus ride […]
Picture by Aunt Andrea, who took Evie sledding at the school across the street from her house. Thanks, Andrea!
So says weather.com, concerning Friday in Toronto. Ugh. Do planes land in snow?
When we woke up this morning, the Big E was gone — off via the 4 a.m. KLM jetplane to Toronto (with a layover in Amsterdam), two days ahead of the rest of us, who feel compelled to finish out the week at school. Evie was particularly distraught to find him missing, mainly because they […]
I put this up in acknowledgment of William Kristol’s point yesterday — for the first time ever he said something that I did not find disingenuous and objectionable — that it is not fair to be more contemptuous of the U.S. auto industry than of the U.S. financial sector.
When I sneeze, it is like I am exploding.
I agree with Tom Friedman about everything today.
I also enjoyed reading the recent profile of him in the New Yorker. This is what I took from it: Self-confidence is the key to productivity. You may not be right about everything, but at least your ideas are out there.
And here is […]
I was trying to sneak through the season without getting a tree of our own — we will see plenty of them over the holidays in North America — but that was not acceptable to the under-10 crowd at our house. The only thing the Christmas trees have going for them here in Maadi is that […]
Today was the big Girl Scout holiday party — which our troop was substantially in charge of — and there are about six more celebrations to go before we head out of town one week from today. I also have some "work work" to get done before we leave. But all is well.
On the […]