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I got an email from my sister (who lives in Warsaw) telling me about a recent conversation she had with Janek. (In an earlier post I describ...

I ran into someone at the store this afternoon. I know this person, I thought. I know quite a bit about him. I know something of his family ...

There was a time when Lech Walesa was every person’s good guy. In Poland, he was, of course, the symbol of change, the leader of the quiet r...

If these colors don’t send you into a state of ecstatic rapture, you are one tough reader to please. It was one of those...

Sometimes I think we don’t use the words “I’m not sure” often enough. We have too much confidence, too much belief in our own choices and in...

My Berkeley clipping service (aka my 80 year old mother) sent me a thick batch of newspaper articles this week. Among other items I find a p...

This morning I went for a long, wet , buggy (there's no escaping it) walk with a friend whom I hadn’t seen for many months. In catch...

If it rains, then coffee shops fill and you have to look creatively for a spot to sit. At Border’s I found myself by a stack of books that I...

In a recent (and as is typically the case for this blogger, both funny and sagacious) JFW post I am referred to as having the old Polish ma...

I read today (Gourmet Magazine, May issue) that it is now illegal to kill lobsters in Reggio Emilia, Italy, by thrusting them headfirst into...

Another round of applause for the talented Mr. F who can now do blog template tricks efficiently and well. Redecorating the blog has never ...

Is it every girl’s wish here to be like the others? I just read a student blog that made me go back to this and think more about the pressur...

...that you just wanted to wrap yourself around a tree and collapse.

kr (kind reader): Why wont you go with us to the Simon & Garfunkel concert in Milwaukee? I thought you liked Simon & Gurfunkel. nc...

I don't think I am much of ranter. I know, you’re supposed to rant on blogs. Everyone does it: I read funny rants and serious rants, ran...

A neighbor is sending his daughter off to camp next week. Camp. I went to camp four times during my childhood. They all get mixed reviews. ...

I looked at Ann’s blog photos from NYC (you MUST check them out here ) and I couldn’t believe it. There’s a shot from her hotel window. Oh, ...

Who can forget these? The Great Communicator. The Teflon President. The 9 to 5 President. The Gipper. A Made-for-Television President. Autho...

It came a month too early this year: my turning a back toward the little Giverny that is my yard. Why? Why? Why walk away when colors like t...

A reader not favorably inclined toward blogs wrote the following email yesterday: “your blog (appears to) overshadow(s) too much else…” I ...