Monthly Archives: June 2011

Cliff Lee shut out the Red Sox in a masterful performance last night by, in the words of Dustin Pedroia, pitching his butt off.  The Sox recounted how appreciative they were that Cliff signed with the Phillies instead of the … Continue reading →

I blogged about the Big Joe Talent Show last September, and tonight we sat in on our first show of the Summer 2011 season. Big Joe is self-effacing about his size, and he rips off joke after joke as fillers … Continue reading →

Morning Starbucks.  Man buries his gaze in the newspaper.  Woman burrows her gaze into her laptop.  I sneeze.  No reaction.  No “God Bless You”, or even the non-theologic “Bless You”. What’s the origin of the term, anyway?  Snopes has a … Continue reading →

I mentioned previously that I spent the celebration of Israeli Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) with my father and stepmother.  My father’s classmate in graduate school, Irv Bennett, sent me a link to this stirring video of a celebration in Israel … Continue reading →

We’re having the pleasure of spending the weekend on Candlewood Lake of Thistle Island in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with the Irwins and Topiols.  Fasciating history in this place, the 11 mile man-made lake created in the 1920s by flooding the valley to an … Continue reading →

“I got the nicest, nicest, nicest email ever.  And I was like, Oh My God!  And then I was like, whatever.”

… with props to the friend who sent along the link, who shall remain anonymous …

— which also means Happy 13th Anniversary Sarina & David, and Happy Birthday Eva, who would have been 57 today, and who we promised never to forget.