Music and Cats

At least once every couple of days (or more often if Sasha gets his way), it’s open season in our house on the gatitos’ favorite toy. This toy - which looks to me like an oversized fly-fishing lure for cats - sounds like fluttering wings as it whirls through the air. The cats go crazy, […]

Ronni at Time Goes By has a lovely post about her birthday today. If you have not yet “met” Ronni, well, you’ve been missing a great blog, and today would be a great day to remedy that. Ronni writes beautifully and very thoughtfully about growing older. This is a subject that, no matter how we […]

I’ve been struggling with how to write about the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, since it first opened a few weeks ago. I am reluctant to “review” a building that I have never experienced in person. While photos of buildings may be descriptive, even powerfully evocative, they are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional […]

The puffy cumulus clouds were high today, so most of the peaks that are usually visible on the flight between the Bay Area and Seattle were hidden. I looked up from my book to see Mt. Shasta directly below my airplane window; by the time I had the camera out, it was gone. Mt. Rainier […]

Paul and I rarely engage in orgies of consumer spending, but when we do… well, let’s just say we’re good at it.
If all had gone according to plan in 2004, we’d have spent last February and March in the hell that is living in one’s house in the midst of a remodeling. By the end […]