Monthly Archives: June 2007

I’m wading through some technical reading (yeah, I know, a family car trip is not the best time for that), but I wanted to post a comment about the great reading I’m going to be doing very shortly.  I’m signed … Continue reading →

I tried out a new church yesterday, and learned a few things about what I like a church to look and sound like.  I agreed with much of the service: they used a Bible, they referred to God the Father … Continue reading →

It’s been interesting seeing the eulogizing of Richard Rorty after his passing away on Friday. As one might have expected, the philosopher who was dismissed as crazy (at least by most philosophers) before his death, seems to have become upon … Continue reading →

Now that Mom, Dad, Adam, and I are all away from work, the vacation mentality is finally sinking in.  One stays up late, so the others end up doing it too, and we all wake up late the next morning … Continue reading →

This morning Nelson and I went to Selkirk Shores State Park. It’s a potentially nice park. We had lunch under a beech tree from which we had a great view of Lake Ontario framed by beech leaves. Sadly, the effect … Continue reading →

Today was Nelson’s last day here. We managed to get quite a lot in. In the morning we went to my garden and planted my tomatoes (all 18 varieties: from Beam’s Yellow Pear to Aunt Ruby’s German Green to Black … Continue reading →

As I was weaving through the airports yesterday I got a sense of how far removed I am from the business world. The magazine in the seat-back pocket had articles on how to rub shoulders with the big boys, best … Continue reading →

I have gone from the free-range-organic-all-natural-local-vegetarian Ithaca to Hudson, Iowa, where people were standing in line at the meat counter to catch the sale on 10-pound tubes of lean hamburger meat. Meat in tubes? That’s a new one even on … Continue reading →

Yesterday we took a hike around Treman Park, which is our favorite park in Ithaca.  A couple of miles through woods, along a river, and up stone steps, and you reach a beautiful waterfall that is called “Lucifer Falls.”  It … Continue reading →

was a success.  We weren’t sure how having 15 people over to our tiny apartment would work, particularly as I only have 8 place settings!  But thankfully you can wash dishes and still join in the living room banter–it’s all … Continue reading →