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When I was thinking about fun things I could plan to celebrate Ron’s winter birthday, I realized that I spend a lot of time on our morning walks – looking for whales, talking to Ron about whales, pointing out things that might be whales and/or logs. My love of marine biology is not hampered at […]

Well, it’s time for us to head back home. It’s been a trip with a bigger footprint than my usual planning – France, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and now London. The overriding world theme has remained one of political peril, diplomatic failures, and bewildering aggression. The personal themes of the trip are far easier to […]

Wicked tells the story of the two witches from Oz – Glinda and Elphaba – the good witch and the wicked witch. The London production we saw had a fantastic set and great singers – especially the woman playing Elphaba. I felt like I got the general gist of the plot in Act One and […]

London is just massive. Almost 10 million people live here. I’ve had a few moderately successful visits over the years and London has remained squarely in the middle of the pack of cities I enjoy. London comes in way above Los Angeles for me but we haven’t bonded like I’ve bonded with Paris. So I […]