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Something I learned today : The blogging lawyer from St. Croix, V.I. wrote the following in an email that responded to an earlier post of mi...

Too easy? I know, I know, it's not the one flower, it's the entirety that counts. Still, this is one heck of a pretty little col...

You’re darn right, Tonya, I cling to my private thoughts with true survivor-of-political-dictatorship (that it was communist is irrelevant) ...

So went the children’s story (I’m talking about VERY SMALL children) about a bear, who, because of hibernation, almost slept through the hol...

A friend and fellow blogger asked today why I had not posted a single word about my legal work in Japan. This is not the first time I got as...

A blogger ( here ) mentioned an extreme episode of wine snobbery that she experienced while eating at L’Etoile. It breaks my heart when t...

In one day I had two encounters with island law types. I received an email from the author of this blog , based in St. Croix of the U.S. Vir...

A friend and fellow blogger succumbed to the “favorites” list mania (posting on the topic here , responding to a call for favorites here ). ...

Today marks the first day of the graduation ceremonies on the Yale campus. I understand that every effort was made to keep politics away fro...

A message from the local weather radio station (currently appearing on my computer): While driving tonight... do not enter flooded roads....

Everyone does lists: favorite books, movies, names, favorite everything! Even the new blogger format asks this of you: name this, describe y...

This guy is dinner! --> The brazenness, the audacity, I mean, come on! That patch of ground is decimated as a result of his shena...

A week ago I was sitting at terminal 2E at the Paris airport thinking how nice it is that all Air France flights to and from the States arri...

The tile floor of the un-solarium has suspiciously dark-looking grout. Normally it is not dark. It is dark on the rare, rare occasions when ...

Alright, it is official: Michael Moore’s movie picks up the top prize at Cannes. Is it really because (as is suggested in the WashPost artic...

Is it really possible for a thunderstorm to last for 12 hours? I am waiting for the water to come into the house. One more day of rain and m...

I saw Bon Voyage tonight. I’ll not say much here. Everyone who watches it ought to do so with an open mind. They can then let the film unfol...

A few years back I went up to Odessa Piper, Madison’s chef extraordinaire (so says the James Beard Foundation award committee) and asked her...

I have been working at home the past several days. My work space here is seasonal: I am buried in a misguided solarium amidst jasmine trees ...

At the moment, I am listening to my Chopin CD and thinking about the blog world. I’m quite attached to this CD. In fact, I had taken it with...