26 Saturday Nov 2011
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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
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13 Sunday Nov 2011
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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
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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
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“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
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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.
31 Sunday Jul 2011
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So this year my wife Ellen decided I needed an apron for Father’s Day (probably because I only wear ties on very rare occasions).
Therefore, she arranged a private cooking lesson with one of DC’s best chefs.
And yesterday the event occurred.
Ellen and I, along with longtime friends Anita and Matt, went to the home of Roberto Donna for a four-hour ‘participatory’ cooking lesson.
Our only two requests were that we learn the proper way to cook risotto and that we wanted to concentrate on seafood. We were told to bring wine and be prepared to eat what we cooked.
29 Friday Jul 2011
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28 Thursday Jul 2011
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