Remembering Sam Miller, in Words & Pictures

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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As our family heads to Boston for the unveiling of my dad’s headstone, I thought I’d repost the eulogy from a year ago and a slide gallery of pictures.

from MillersTime, July, 13, 2011…

Sam died, as he requested, peacefully and without pain, in his own bed, in his apartment, surrounded in the last months, weeks, days, and hours by three generations of his family. His daughter, son, son-in law, daughter-in-law, four grand children and their spouses, four great grand children, and of course his wonderful caretaker all were able to spend time with him at the end of his life.

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Join Me at Fenway This Thurs. – for Free

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Free Ticket to Fenway, See Sox vs. O's This Thurs.

I have one ticket for someone who wants to join me to see the Sox at Fenway this Thursday, June 7 at 7:10.

The Sox play the Orioles, and Clay Buchholz, who once threw a no-hitter against them (Sept. 1, 2007), is pitching. And altho he’s not been lights out this year, he does seem to be pitching well of late.

And if you can’t attend, perhaps you know someone who might enjoy Fenway. I’m not opposed to making a new friend (if said ‘new friend’ is an O’s fan, or even worse, a Yunkee’s fan, I’ll still sit with him/her, tho I/m likely to make snide remarks now and then).

First person to contact me on this site or by email (Samesty84@gmail.com) gets the ticket.

Articles of Interest.4

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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How We Die, Inventions, Sugar Daddies, The Vietnam Solution, William Alexander Morgan, Yankee Comandate

Here are this week’s post of articles that you may have missed – one is about the future, three are related to politics, and the last returns to the issue of how we do/don’t die.

Please feel free to agree, disagree, or comment on any of them.

The Three Toughest Outs in Baseball?

01 Friday Jun 2012

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Joe Posnanski, Toughest Outs in Baseball

What are the hardest three outs to get in baseball?

I suspect if asked this question, you would say, “the final three outs of a game, those in the 9th inning.”

That’s what I always thought. It’s what the announcers always say.

But you’d be wrong.

Pictures from Berlin & Prague

01 Friday Jun 2012

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Berlin, Photos by Ellen Miller, Prague

The 15 pictures below are from our recent trip to Berlin and Prague. Actually most of them are from Prague, which lived up to all the good things we’d heard about it.

If you want to see more of my wife Ellen’s pictures from this trip, you can click on the link below for a slide show of about 120 pix.

Summer Reading Ideas

31 Thursday May 2012

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Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom, Robert Caro, Susan Stamberg, The Passage of Power

I’m not sure what percentage of books folks read are read over the summer, on vacations, etc., but I suspect it’s significant.

So if you’re wondering what to take with you the next few months, here are a few possibilities:

At Least It’s Not Sky Diving

31 Thursday May 2012

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Camp Birch Trail, Elizabeth Miller, The Color Run

The Happiest 5K Ever

by Elizabeth Miller

Ah, Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer.

Since it’s notoriously one of the most crowded weekends of the year on Miami Beach, I decided to escape to Denver to visit one of my best friends, Tiffany, who recently got engaged to her boyfriend. While we were researching fun things to do, she e-mailed me about something called The Color Run. I’d never heard of it. Of course, I Googled it and knew immediately this was right up my alley.

Articles of Interest.3 – The ‘Travel Post’

19 Saturday May 2012

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Articles of Interest, Lobstermen, Rome, Solas Award, The Grand Tour, Travel, Yemen

As I put together this post, and since my thoughts have turned to travel, I thought I’d make Articles of Interest.3 all about travel.

Baseball Notes, Thoughts, & Stats After 38 Games

18 Friday May 2012

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baseball, The Nats, The O's, The Red Sox, The Universal Baseball Association, The Yankees

from Life Magazine

In no particular order of importance, here are some thoughts and some statistics rattling through my alleged brain at the end of the first quarter of the season:

Latest from Sam Wo’s

18 Friday May 2012

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Chinese restaurants, Sam Wo's

Thanx to friend Anita Rechler, the above picture, taken May 13, confirms that indeed Sam Wo’s is closed and has yet to satisfy the Health Department that it meets code.

Two Films & a Play

17 Thursday May 2012

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Clybourne Park, Films, Plays, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Where Do We Go Now?

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (for the Elderly & Beautiful) *** (1/2)

The previews and descriptions of this film made me uncertain I wanted to see it, even though it is about a favorite place of mine in India – Jaipur. But something got me to go, perhaps a review or perhaps because we couldn’t find anything else we wanted to see.

Three Very Different Restaurants

16 Wednesday May 2012

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Bandolero, Il Buco Alementari & Vineria, Restaurants, Woodlands

I draw your attention to three very different restaurants in very different geographical locations. The prices vary widely, but the tastes at all three are worthy of your seeking them out.

More Pix of the Kinder

15 Tuesday May 2012

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For those of you who enjoy pictures of the kinder, here are some of the latest, including a Kodak slide show of the gathering for my sister Janet’s 70th birthday in Atlanta.

T’s nice to see the next generation coming along so nicely, and their parents too.

(Randy & Corey are Janet’s sons. Jolie is Randy and his wife Val’s daughter, and Evan is Cory & his wife Julie’s son. Annie is my daughter, Abba (Edan) is her husband, and Eli and Abby are their children.)

Abby and Eli

LBJ: Political Genius or Ruthless Manipulator?

13 Sunday May 2012

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, Robert Caro, The Passage of Power, The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Over the last week I have read Robert Caro’s fourth book on Lyndon Johnson and attended a Politics & Prose bookstore “conversation’ between Caro and Politico’s Chief White House correspondent Mike Allen. I thought the book (606 pages) truly worthy of my week’s devotion to it. I enjoyed listening to Caro and getting a sense of the man, his humility, his solidity, and his insights, though I think Allen missed an opportunity to draw out Caro on many aspects of the book that deserved discussion.

If you definitely plan to tackle The Passage of Power, you need not read further than the end of this paragraph. Mark this site, and come back to it after you have read the book. Then read what is written below, and let me others know what you think.**

If you’re not sure if you want to read the book, or if you just want to get a bit of a summary and one person’s reactions, read the “Summary” and “10 Takeaways” below.

(If your time is limited, check out The New Yorker’s excerpt of the day LBJ went from believing his political life was over to attaining the most power he ever had — Nov. 22, 1963.)

Remaining Nats’ Games: List of Dates Still Available for Free

08 Tuesday May 2012

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Here is a list of the remaining games that are available for you to choose from to join me to watch the Nats in 2012.

One seat for each game is free to you, except you may have to buy me a hot dog and/or a beer and put up with my companionship for the duration of the game.

If you might want two tickets to any of the games listed below, I may be open to selling those to you. Note that the Friday, Sept. 7 Marlins game is definitely for sale.