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The sunset down 34th Street in Manhattan this evening. During the last 15 minutes of daylight, the sun fully illuminated every cross street in the borough. The phenomenon will occur again on July 13. The New York Times – Breaking … Continue reading →

We learned that our “Uncle Jimmy” died last night.  He had had cancer that was in remission until about a week ago when he was having some tests due to a bad reaction to some medicine – the last MRI … Continue reading →

I received news today of a prognosis of terminal cancer for one of our “adopted” uncles.  He has been fighting this for 20 months and we had been told last month that all was clear.  A recent bout of bad … Continue reading →

I received news today of a prognosis of terminal cancer for one of our “adopted” uncles.  He has been fighting this for 20 months and we had been told last month that all was clear.  A recent bout of bad … Continue reading →

The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane got a big surprise Thursday at a school performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” That’s when the National Endowment for the Arts awarded it $25,000 for next season’s school program, part of the NEA’s Shakespeare … Continue reading →

In the air from new york to baton rouge via houston. Whatever happened to nonstop flights anyway? Cab came at 4 am and we made very good time arriving at 430. Checked in curbside and was under baggage weight limit … Continue reading →

Sir Roger Norrington talks to Petroc Trelawny about Bach’s magnificent last choral work, the Mass in Bm, and introduces the performance of the work he directed at the Proms in July, 2000, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death.  The … Continue reading →

[note: this was written at noon on the train today but TYPEPAD has been down since last night] No practice today. Had to go to get a non drivers iid card to replace my expired dr licens so iwould have … Continue reading →

Today the cliffs look like brownies with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. Not hungry am I? So this is the second week of my new schedule and how am I doing?  Getting used to this schedule.  Its starting to fall … Continue reading →