Flying out tomorrow morning to Philadelphia to see my mother graduate from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and be ordained as a Rabbi. Back monday night around midnight. Have a nice weekend.

Over the course of this visit to my mother and her roommate, another woman of similar age, I've ( Read more... )

The short version of my DC visit is All Smithsonian, All The Time ( Read more... )

Monday night I flew out of Seattle just after midnight, and, after a rushed transfer in the sprawling Houston airport, landed in Pittsburgh around 11:15 am local time. The flights werer not restful, and after the three prior nights on the road, I felt a bit like the travel scene in Fight Club.

( Pittsburgh )