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1 Sep
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
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
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
Dance for joy. This earth is a place of wonder.
3 Aug
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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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