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Life without jokes isn't worth the trouble
I went to see The Magic Flute at the Met last week and dozed through the sleepy parts of it, woke up for the Queen of the Night aria, and again when …
2 years, 3 months ago
It was a good time, there was none better
I’m at the age when you see the insides of more than your share of health clinics and some are like walking into a meat warehouse but when I walked i…
2 years, 3 months ago
A happy summer clears the air
Friday afternoon, I boarded the Lake Shore Limited in New York, bound for Chicago and then the Grand Canyon, along with my Londoner stepdaughter and …
2 years, 4 months ago
A lovely lunch last week in New Haven
At lunch with a pregnant woman, you talk about ordinary life, family, summer, the food, the elation of the kids at the graduation we’d attended that …
2 years, 4 months ago
A few minutes on a hilltop in Concord
Thoreau’s great work wasn’t Walden but his daily journal in which he wrote about his walks in the woods and fields, what he saw, what he loved. Walde…
2 years, 4 months ago
A private word from me to Joe
Biden needs a sport to put to rest the whispers about dodderiness. It’s nice to see him putting his arms around his dog and his grandkids — his prede…
2 years, 4 months ago
Canada is burning but we're doing okay
I’m not nostalgic about olden times. I love these passwords and PIN numbers that give me the sense of foreign agents trying to get into my email, ste…
2 years, 5 months ago
Why I love the Shenandoah Valley
I hung out with the customers before and after (there’s no backstage at this amphitheater so I entered and exited through the audience) and it’s star…
2 years, 5 months ago
The art of leaving home
The pleasure of moving is the excavation of the past. I open a box and here’s a photo of my fifth-grade class, the eager neatly-combed-and-dressed bo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Enough about them, this is about me
When I moved out of Minneapolis, I sorted through personal papers and it struck me that, in hundreds of pictures of me, I am not smiling in a single …
2 years, 5 months ago