I haven’t met that many Ambassadors, which is partly why Richard Holbrooke looms large in my mind. But it was the circumstances of my dinner with him that was so memorable. I was working at the NFL and attending an exhibition game, Giants v. Chargers, in Berlin. Holbrooke was Ambassador to Germany. We had a […]
Do you love disaster movies? Real life is scarier at the Metrodome!
December 12, 2010 by
I don’t get it — don’t they know about snow in Minneapolis? I have watched this video about ten times….especially when the snow starts shooting like rockets, just can’t get enough of it.
“LETTERS TO SALA” opens at Rollins College, Feb. 11
December 6, 2010 by
Winter Park, Florida: a nice place to be in February! Especially when you can catch a great production of Arlene Hutton’s LETTERS TO SALA directed by Eric Nightengale. Special guest: SALA!
Matinee momma
November 28, 2010 by
Matinee vs. evening performance? I’ve been going to the Metropolitan Opera for a long time, but today happened to be the first time I went in the afternoon. Took my son and his friend, both home from college, and my husband. Good thing there was no competing football game. Fantastic! Instead of my usual cat […]
Who knows how to run the NYC school system?
November 12, 2010 by
Too many American schools are failing to serve their students. And that’s with the professionals in charge. So maybe it will be a new breed of education chiefs who will inject energy and accountability and innovation back into the classroom. It hardly matters whether those people come from schools of education or business or journalism! […]
On tuning the piano
October 20, 2010 by
Finally, did it. I didn’t dare say how long it had been since the piano was tuned, lest I be reported for piano abuse, but the nice tuner man soon restored my piano’s beautiful sound. Thanks, Clinton Curtis, for embarrassing me into getting this done. I was inspired enough to sit down and try to […]
Nov 9 and 11: a play, an exhibition, and two Kirschner talks
October 15, 2010 by
Two talks in one week….this is unusual, but here they come. If you find yourself anywhere near the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, drop in please at James Madison University I’ll be Visiting Scholar there on November 8 and November 9, giving a talk on Resistance and Heroism: Mapping the Holocaust Story on November 8, and also […]
K is for Kosher, or Kurnit, or Keeper
October 12, 2010 by
My fabled friends Scott Kurnit and Tola Murphy-Baran have taken off the wraps of a new venture, AdKeepers. Cool concept; click on K on an ad and save it automatically. Say you’re shopping for a car and want to save the Ford ads for later….or you’re not quite ready to clip a coupon yet. I […]
On the road to Porto, Corsica
September 2, 2010 by
Summer camp with Earps, 1883 in Hunter’s Hot Springs…or is it?
August 29, 2010 by
Look familiar? I found this at the BBC, but I don’t know the source. I liked Kevin Connolly’s take on the photo, though he does not identify its provenance. I’ll be looking on the Earpian listservs to see who first verifies or debunks the cast of characters. Virgil Earp, for instance? Unlikely. Of course, not […]