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90 days today, since birth. But that's really only 36 weeks, since she was born at week 23. Four pound ten ounces and looking good. Check out the pictures! or go here – http://emmariner.blogspot.com/  

As previously mentioned here, Brigid’s niece June and husband Andrew were with us for a few days – December 30th to January 2nd. They’d had to travel from London to Philadelphia  and then take Amtrak to Croton, because the winter storm made a mess of travelling by air. Their London to Newark flight on the … Read more

UPDATE: Just got an email saying – “Do you cover the cages at night? Believe it or not, they like “privacy”. Will pass this bit of data along to Brigid and Joe. Actually non-report, since there appears to have been none, nada, zip. This despite extensive introduction since Chili, the on-loan stud chinchilla, arrived December … Read more

Brigid's niece and husband, who were just visiting us over the New Year, live in the Brisbane outskirts (This is NOT their video). Toowoomba is also on the outskirts, but we are not sure how close this is to June and Andrew. "I'm so glad I parked out the front today." First line of the … Read more

Not because of more jobs; people are leaving the labor force faster then jobs are being created! From the Heritage Foundation – hit the link for the full posting. With the unemployment rate now at 9.4%, this marks the 20th month in a row that the unemployment has been over 9 percent, a post–World War … Read more

Haha. The opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. After which Mr. Steele said, “War and Peace.” He then dashed off the opening line from, well, a different book: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Well 31 years ago, Brigid and I, along with three other couple living in Cayman and Jamaica, were in the Iron Market. That’s what attracted me to this short video.  

I posted twice on my college rommmate Mike's new (and first) granddaughter. You can go here A new – and tiny – baby and here News on new baby Emma to see them. Emma was almost 17 weeks (!) early. There were some worries the past month, but now, 71 days after she was born, Emma is … Read more

The Wall Street Journal has run this at Christmas every year since 1949. When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

The New Republic is the liberal version of National Review magazine. Go here – http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/80162/democrats-faith-based-outreach or here To defend his record and contend with the right-wing grassroots, Obama would do well to articulate the moral-religious values that permeate his policies and initially energized his supporters. And, if the Democrats want to avoid the impression that … Read more