A year ago a new production of Sondheim’s musical Company was announced, with Patti LuPone as one of the stars. I bought a ticket. Fortunately I also wrote it in my calendar because otherwise I would have completely forgotten that it was tonight. The production was very good, and I liked it much more than when […]
Hamilton. Tonight. At the Victoria Palace Theatre. It lived up to the astronomically high expectations, and the vibrancy of live performance made some of the melodies that I found rather boringly repetitive in the cast recording blend into the greater whole. And I unabashedly loved seeing a story about America’s founding fathers, told in modern […]
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 […]
Meetings in Munich next week are a great excuse for a weekend in Berlin. My early-morning flight out of London was massively delayed so I spent most of the day in the airport instead of Germany, but did get here in time for what mattered most: dinner with Grit, Nikolas, and Quynh-Nhu! The four of […]
I went to a cricket match the other day at the super-posh Lord’s stadium. Dress code was jacket and tie. We were in a private box with never-ending catering and arguably the best seats in the stadium. England was playing India in a multi-day match. The match started but I stayed at the buffet table […]
As a reward for not quitting our jobs after the nightmare of getting ready for the new European privacy law this spring, our boss promised to “do something fun.” Next thing we knew, a team “workshop” had been scheduled in our Munich office on the third day of Oktoberfest. By virtue of our working for […]
Following my grandfather’s advice never to travel the same road twice, we took the long way back from Stanley to Boise. First stop: Some lake that I’ve forgotten the name of. It was gorgeous and clear and we wanted to stay there all day. If we’d had lawn chairs, we probably would have done . […]
This “destination wedding” was high in the mountains, a good three hours’ drive from Boise. The nearest town was Stanley, population 63, known for having the coldest average temperature in the lower 48 states. Our hotel was, appropriately, made of logs and surrounded by giant trucks. As we checked in on Friday afternoon, we asked […]
The happy reason for this trek out West was my little brother’s wedding. After his first marriage ended a few years ago, he had returned to bachelorhood and I didn’t quite know what to expect next. But then he met Sarah and her two kids and, well, after a couple of years of dating, they […]
Oh man, I do love a good trek. Like getting from Fez to Granada in a single day. Or, in this case, 4am wake up in London (after 3 hours of sleep, natch), 9am presentation to 85 lawyers, 12pm dash to the airport for a 3pm flight to Seattle, ten hours later (but still only […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 