Category Friends
Beach camping (Part II)
Waking up to a clear, late-summer morning on the beach is a glorious thing. Especially when your earplugs and sparkly Moroccan blanket made for a long and deliciously comfortable night of sleep. Amy kept laughing at all the jingling. It was a little like Christmastime… The metal grocery cart is another trapping of my “urban […]
Layover rendez-vous
Okay, so this was awesome: My flight from Salt Lake City to Reno went through Denver, where I had a two-hour layover. Not enough time to leave the airport to visit Amanda, but plenty of time for her to meet me for a late lunch on the other side of the security line. The […]
Brunch with the ladies (and the Great Waffle Taste-Off of 2013)
There’s nothing quite like last-minute travel changes to make for fun adventures. Take yesterday, for example. The original plan was to fly out to Salt Lake City, where I would spend a few days helping to care for Lady (who just had total knee-replacement surgery) and, during the down time, catching up with some mission and […]
Mrs. Blanche
You know how sometimes you get on Facebook and start clicking on friends of friends and pretty soon you’ve gone down a rabbit-hole and suddenly you’re sending a friend request to your middle school band teacher, along with a note about how her encouragement and teaching were instrumental in setting you on the path to a life-long passion for […]
JJDSFT Challenge #2: Moustaches and/or the (possibly) future Miss Vietnam
Challenge: Fashion 2 homemade moustaches out of any kind of paper and find a native who will wear one, you wear one and them take a picture. Go. Response: Okay, so we didn’t follow all the instructions exactly as written. These are finger moustaches and not paper moustaches (unless fingers fall within the definition of “any kind […]
Desert wedding — El Paso and Las Cruces
I can honestly say that I never thought I’d go to El Paso, Texas. Especially not for a wedding. Double especially not for a Jewish wedding. But I did! And it was wonderful and fun. I went for the bride, Kristin, who is one of my good friends from law school. She’s originally from […]
Memorial Day – Cycling, sailing, custard, crabs
Memorial Day was a full day of outdoor fun. Mark, a friend from church, invited a bunch of people down to his parents’ house on the water at Breton Bay, a tributary of the Potomac River near where it feeds into the Chesapeake Bay. It was a multi-stage affair: A group of guys (and one […]
Polo!
Okay, so the question on everyone’s mind since Saturday is, Where has polo been all my life? Seriously. It’s like all of the best things about a football game (fun ambiance, good friends, outdoors), only there are horses instead of football, people wear blazers with pocket squares instead of fan jerseys, and the foodstand sells fine Italian […]
Spring Gala
What’s the use of having a reputation for excellent French and a passion for the performing arts? Well, for starters, it increases the odds that your name will come up when the folks planning a black-tie gala look at the guest list and think, “If only we knew someone who was fluent in French and a fan of the Kennedy Center!” […]
Home again
The Chicago trip ended this morning. Everyone met for one last breakfast in the hotel restaurant and then packed off into waiting black cars that would take us to our various airports — the Colorado folks flew out of Midway; the rest of us out of O’Hare. Turned out that Will and Susan (Amanda’s parents) were […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 