Category Movies
Harry Potter!
I figure it wouldn’t do to have lived in London for several years without visiting the Harry Potter studios — if for no other reason than to be able to tell the nieces and nephews about it. Tickets are devilish hard to get hold of, so today’s excursion is the fruit of planning done months […]
Sunday in Berlin, in three parts
Part 1 Grit decided to go for a run, so I had exactly 90 minutes after breakfast to stroll leisurely from my hotel to the Gendarmenmarkt . . . . . . past the Humboldt University law school . . . . . . across a plaza bordered by some neoclassical buildings the color, and […]
Around the city walls
York is encircled by the most complete set of medieval city walls in England. It’s about three miles around and the guidebooks say it should take about two hours to finish. I took all day. I hadn’t really intended to. I set out around 9:30 after a quick breakfast and intended to finish the tour […]
Movie night!
When it’s 82 degrees at 10pm and you have no air conditioning, you go to the movies on a worknight.
Sharing with family
Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”is hands down the best comedy routine I’ve ever seen. It’s wildly funny, powerfully furious, and deeply personal. I may have snorted milk through my nose more than once (in retrospect, watching over a dinner of cold cereal might not have been the best idea), but I definitely came away with something to […]
A windfall weekend
What do you do when your get-away weekend in Italy falls through and you want to stop feeling sad that your opera ticket’s going to waste? Think of the weekend as a surprise weekend in London, not a lost weekend in Italy. I was tempted to treat it like a “normal” weekend, feeling harried to […]
Boise weekend!
This time last week, I was on my way to the airport to catch a flight to Boise. I’d found a good promotion on Alaska Air a few months ago and decided to seize the opportunity to shore up my position as the Favorite Uncle and catch up with my awesome twin sister. How did […]
The hills are alive…
What’s a super fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon? Singing along with Julie Andrews at the top of your lungs with a group of friends and a sold-out theatre full of grown-ups and children who are all doing the same. We were in the 5th Avenue theatre, an ornate old building downtownwhere the touring […]
Getting to Seoul (and what we ate)
It’s one thing to stay up till 2am packing for a trip — what with the caffeine, the excitement, and the indecision over whether to pack all four pairs of shorts and two pairs of jeans, you declare that sleep is overrated and you’ll have plenty of time for that on the plane. It’s another […]
Oh, the perils of being a woman in love!
Suppose you’re a beautiful young woman. You meet the man of your dreams and fall in love. He loves you, too, and life’s a fairy tale. Unfortunately, if you’re the heroine of a fairy tale and you fall in love at the beginning of the tale, then you’re in for a rough spell. Sooner or […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 