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1 Sep

Day 1 Nairobi

We arrived to a remarkably smoothly run burned out airport. The welcome tents have to be the most beautiful anywhere but to be expected in this...

31 Aug

Africa Bound

It’s been a while since the Lindblad family has headed for Africa together. Justin, Jeremy and I have spent years in and out of East Africa...

25 Aug

Kenya 2013

In a week’s time I will be back in Kenya.  I am traveling with family and we will spend almost three weeks split between Lamu, Nairobi...

24 Aug

Meditations #49

Dance for joy. This earth is a place of wonder.

3 Aug

Life, Death & Dancing: David Rakoff

There is a YouTube segment from NPR’s This American Life that is essential viewing.  Rakoff was an essayist, a precise, delicious wordsmith...

24 Jul

Meditations #48

What is is that brings us such distances to such places, where a dorsal fin of ice floats in pristine stillness, and penguins play? This is...

23 Jul

Restaurant Ease in Manhattan

CATA, my new favorite Spanish restaurant in lower Manhattan, is a delightful find.  Easy on a summer evening, this is a tapas spot with all...

19 Jul

Ippudo West Side

I ran.  Well, not really ran as the heat index was 107 at 5:30PM when I set out from home, and I more slid than ran to 51st between 8th and...

9 Jul

Tech Gamalan

I love gamelan music much to my sons’ bemusement.  And so it was surprising when Justin sent me the link below. http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/ And...

9 Jul

Matteo and the Marmots

Matteo is an 8 year old boy who has struck up an amazing friendship with a colony of marmots in the Austrian Alps.  He has gone to the Alps...

4 Jul

Storytelling – Listening to Seashells

I love stories.  While there is great nostalgia for those days when families gathered round the radio and had their imaginations swept away...

28 Jun

Fabulous Fakes

A must see at the Museum of Art and Design (always a fascinating stop in Manhattan for a culture monger) is the recently opened exhibition of...

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