14 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Family and Friends
Somehow, Valentine’s Day this year crept up and arrived without my succumbing to the ‘pressure’ of making it Hallmark day, etc.
But I did read an article in this morning’s NYTimes that struck me as worthy of the day (and much more) and worth attaching.
See what you think:
30 Monday Jan 2012
Posted in Family and Friends
I saw an article recently in which the author writes that doctors die differently from the rest of us. That certainly caught my attention, and while there are no studies to back up what he writes, he does seem to point to factors that all of us might want to consider.
Ken Murray, MD, in How Doctor’s Die, writes:
“It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.”
20 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in Family and Friends, Go Sox
We’ve been doing some renovation in our house, and although I’m not sure exactly how it relates, my wife got me to clean out my closet area.
Don’t tell her the following:
18 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Family and Friends
The Rialto. The Bellevue. The National. The Orpheum. Keith’s. The Savoy. The Opera House. The Paramount. The Metropolitan.
If you grew up in Boston, and depending upon your age, then these names probably mean something to you.
17 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Family and Friends
10 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Family and Friends
I returned Sunday night from a weekend in Las Vegas with my daughter Elizabeth. And what a wonderful weekend it was –- Cirque du Soleil, Garth Brooks, World Class Driving, white truffles, hours and hours of black jack, the sports book, spas, wonderful dining, and an ending too good to be true?
But first, two stories, one from more than 50 years ago and the second from 37 years ago.
12 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures, Family and Friends
(Ed.–Since posting Elizabeth’s recounting of her and Caroline’s skydiving – The Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Done — I have been told by at least a half dozen folks about experiences they had that were similar. This morning, I found the following in my email, written by long time friend Leslie Lierman.)
“I want to thank Beth for sharing her story! I have not shared the details of this
experience with many and even though few may read through it, it was fun for me to relive it and capture the story if even for my own amusement.”
Singing in the Sky
By Leslie Lieman
09 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Family and Friends, The Outer Loop
(My wife and I have been having a ‘fight’ for at least the last six months over whether we should cancel our subscriptions to the paper editions of the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Said wife claims that it is a waste of money since she never reads the print editions (true) and she doesn’t think I do either (partially true).
Crunch time has come as the Times wants to charge us $815.78 to renew our subscription and said wife refuses to pay the bill (she is in charge of the monthly bills). Either I am to pay this bill, or our subscription will lapse.
04 Sunday Dec 2011
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures, Family and Friends
(When our younger daughter Elizabeth was in college, she called us to say, ‘Don’t kill me. I’ve got something to tell you.” We promised not to kill her, whereupon she told us she had pierced her tongue.
Only later did we learn that she had not done so at all but was just testing us out to see how upset we might get. And, of course, when we didn’t disown her, she then got her tongue pierced.
Well, it’s now ten years later, and Elizabeth called last night to tell us she was going skydiving today. I thought (silently) that she shouldn’t do it. But she’s 28, and I wasn’t going to start telling her what not to do now.
And so about 9:30 AM this morning, we got the following text message:
“I’m alive. Coolest thing I’ve ever done.”
Being not only a father but also the editor of MillersTime, I quickly (after I told her I was relieved), texted back saying, “I see a MillersTime post in the offing.”
And here it is:)
26 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures, Family and Friends
Favorite younger daughter Elizabeth has ‘Storified’ our annual tradition of substituting Chinese food for turkey. I’m not sure I understand ‘Storifying,’ but somehow it merges tweets, emails, pictures, and videos from various folks and allows the writer to tell a story.
14 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Family and Friends
13 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Family and Friends
When I last wrote about retiring, I had left my job of working with troubled kids and their families and was about six months into ‘retirement.’
Now it’s been three (or is it four?) years. And things seem quite different.
07 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Family and Friends
The railway tracks. Click Here to see more photos by Maria Jesus Verdugo.
It Wasn’t ‘The Final Solution’
Thankfully.
A month ago I reversed the death walk that many of the 1.1-1.5 million Jews exterminated at Auschwitz-Birkenau were forced to make.
Whether or not you’ve visited this extermination camp or have simply seen pictures in any of the now many museums, films, or books dedicated to the memories of this and other Nazi camps, you probably have a picture in your mind of Jews being unloaded from boxcars and standing on the ‘platforms.‘
24 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted in Family and Friends
“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.” — Dave Barry
As you probably know, or have read in an earlier post (“Life After New York City“), my favorite younger daughter recently left NYC for Miami and a new job.
And apparently she didn’t even consider, a la Dave Berry, what that would mean for her dear father.
As I was supervising the moving of her furniture a few days ago (she was already off to her new life), it suddenly dawned on me that this move was going to be costly for me. To wit:
19 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Family and Friends
by Elizabeth Miller
I always used to wonder where people moved after they left New York.
I think the answer may be Miami.
For those of you that don’t already know, I recently moved from NYC, where I lived for 10 years, to Miami, FL to work for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (for those interested you can read more about my job at Knight as a Communications Associate).
I’ve survived three full weeks in my new city and the new job, and I have even lived to tell about it.
