31 Thursday May 2012
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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.
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
11 Wednesday Apr 2012
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04 Wednesday Apr 2012
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I was sure I was about to have the material for a brilliantly funny post about two grand parents taking care of the grand kinder over night.
After all, the little prodigies were 3+ and 1+, and as wonderful as they are, sleeping away from Mommy and Aba was not their idea of a good time. And the younger prodigy has been known to prefer her mother to every thing else in the world.
02 Monday Apr 2012
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures, Family and Friends
So last year for my birthday, Ellen arranged a four-hour cooking lesson with one of DC’s best chefs.**
Pretty special.
This year, she topped that with reservations (HT to Penn S for help in securing said reservation) and an evening at DC’s Minibar, a six person extavaganza of small bites of tastes and combinations you’ve never had but somehow (mostly) work wonderfully.
16 Friday Mar 2012
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14 Tuesday Feb 2012
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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
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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
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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
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10 Tuesday Jan 2012
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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:)
