Back from York = Williamsburg; Edinburgh = DC; Belfast = Baltimore; Dublin = New Orleans; Conwyn = Rural New England; and, London = New York.  N planed the trip flawlessly.  The apartments were great and the transportation was seemless.  Cam is on his way to Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia.  We plan to go to Knoxville in August.  Until then, it ( Read more... )

Dallas was great.  I had not been there in 29 years and the place has changed.  The light rail is great and people seem to get along except for the attempted mass murder by some Islamists.  I got to see where JFK was shot and touched the spot.  So cool ( Read more... )

I have not been there for 25 years.  I look forward to touching the ground where Kennedy's brains touced.  

Last night, I had my first real screaming and storming out of the room argument with Cam.  It was over his not committing to anything.  School, lacrosse, martial arts, cross country, ...  He just doesn't seem to care about anything enough.  I regret the fight and will apologize tonight.  There is some pathology in wanting my child to be better than ( Read more... )

Pretty great crossing into the southern hemisphere was interesting but the International date line was freaky.  We went to slepp on Monday and woke up on Wednesday.  We had two Fridays on the way back.  I learned how colonialism DOES impact the present in ways I had not thought possible.  Driving on the left takes some getting used to.

·         The Andy Chamberses are here today. Cam and Nancy played touristes with them.

·         Cam goes to TN tomorrow

·         He is getting better a lacrosse and eating but not school. He played most of his last game as a D-pole and ate eight Popeye’s spicy chicken thighs in one sitting. He finished 3rd quarter with A, B, B, B, B, B, C. The C ( Read more... )

No travel for a while, I think.  We do have to deal with the lacrosse issues.  Before now, C has had friends who were mostly immigrants, e.g. Ethiopians, with families that were poorer than us but extremely upwardly mobile because they worked like dogs.  Now he is playing lacrosse and we are bumping up against rich people and they are often ( Read more... )

I attended a meeting at the White House today.  The room was nice and picture of the President and the Vice President in candid friendliness were hung on the walls.  I knew about half of the people attending.  There was a half by half mix of women and men.  All were white except from a women of third gerneration East Indian descent and also of ( Read more... )

We are grounded for the month of March and have no travel plans until the beginning of April where we will go to LA/Figi/NZ.  I look forward to the trip.  The ATL thing brought us to a visit with George at Barcelona, which is my favorite restaurant there.  We always have fun but he and I sometimes butt heads.  We used to spend so much time with G ( Read more... )

So, I have had sucess here by doing the things in the last post, and touching base with my Ajay, Carolyn, and Karon. Somehow, 66% of the people who work in my group are not white and 25% are not citizens.  I think the 25% of non-citizens make sense because they are less expensive to hire ( Read more... )