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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
wednesday night interview
My friend Valerie sent me a link to this very fun page of interviews with children, which inspired me to interview my son Gabriel. We had such a good time that I think I’ll do more of these in the future. If you have any questions you’d like me to ask him, please leave them [...]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Welcome Magdalena Shea Scholar Adair
Magdalena Shea Scholar Adair was born June 29, 2010 at 2:35 pm in Los Angeles, Calif. She weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz at birth and was 20 inches long. Shosho’s labor was just about 15 hours, in some ways easier than her first and in other ways harder. For various reasons, it became necessary for [...]
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
around and about our town
Some of these come via the wonderful iphone app Hipstamatic. …
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
our hagadah 5770
I was chatting with a friend a few hours before last week’s seder about how I really don’t go in for the religious stuff. “These dogmatic ceremonies aren’t really a part of who I am,” I told him. “I wasn’t raised with any religion, so I don’t really have much of an appreciation for the [...]
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
clarity of vision (?)
I was part of a meeting with a very high powered financier yesterday and he had an interesting take on things — this economic crisis of the last few years is not what it seems. What’s happening now, he said, is actually a structural readjustment that began in the 1990s and officially started with the [...]
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
1.5 x 3
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with my new iphone — especially the touch-focus camera. The camera is actually fairly versatile. With a little work and determination, I’ve been getting some fairly decent results. Walking around becomes a new exercise in noticing. Branches silhouetted against the sky. The twisted shape of City Hall, [...]
