Ocean

I do get obsessive about looking at weather sites when I have many “outdoor” days before me. At http://www.wunderground.com/ you can get a...

Okay, everyone has their own essentials of travel: toothbrush, pills, underwear, books, passport, whatever. For me they would have to includ...

Ca., the little one

S., the older one 

It’s a special moment when I get to pick up the phone here in Madison and say Est-ce que je peux faire une reservation ? It means that withi...

Not any more. But this does not prevent him from addressing Poles on St.Peter's Square in their native language. Yesterday, he said this...

My sister, who lives in Warsaw, today sent me some notes on legends surrounding mermaids. Why? Because the mermaid is the mascot of Warsaw, ...

A reader, concerned that my my recent days demonstrate a pace that has more elements of frantic than of either rational or calm , forwarde...

slow down, you're going too fast... 

It's midnight, I’m sitting here thinking: keep it short, keep it short. My attempt at short: Today (Monday) I get up worrying that maybe...

I am to transport a suitcase from here to Chicago for a friend later this week. I picked up the suitcase from a prearranged place where it w...

I knew it. My trust in Peter was well-founded. I came home at dusk and found him thus, proud keeper of my yard: (thanks, nine-year-old pal! ...

The yard's yours, Peter. You earned it. 

A happy mother's day to all my mother-ly friends! So my first gift of the day – an e-card… mmmmm, so nice… My second: come on, let’s not...

Mother's Day 1985: at the Arboretum, of course. 

1985: a mother (me), a suspicious older sister, a newborn 

Why is my recollection of them so fuzzy this morning? Two parties: one -- a gathering of the Sad Liberals in the neighborhood, the other -- ...

so good 

Life is a blurr (like the photo below?) Things are spinning, spinning, oh! those of you who were children in the fifties and sixties: rememb...

so cool!