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Just got in tonight. We had a really good time – camped for three days just south of Hershey. Saw this sign outside a United Methodist Church in Hershey: Want to Avoid Burning?     Use "Son" Block

We are going to Hershey PA. Driving out this morning and will be camping there until either Friday or Saturday. The trip was just hatched in the last week and basically was motivated by my desire to re-visit Gettysburg (prompted by the current book I am reading by Stephen Sears, entitled Gettysburg). However – no … Read more

Joe finished his HAP (High Achievement Progam) five week summer stint at Fordham Prep today. As I previously mentioned, this was a program for boys entering the eighth grade, with academics in the morning and sports in the afternoon. They had a very nice graduation ceremony this morning. The  240 boys were in fifteen groups … Read more

That’s right. I’m 48 again. As always, the rule of thumb is to “subtract seven years”. So while chronologically I may have been born in 1951, I am 48. We had a nice little outdoor breakfast, with Tim brewing tea, and taking this picture. Note the straws with parasols, a Tim innovation. And here I … Read more

This is from my friend Thea MaGinnis

My oldest boy Joe is having his birthday today. “Why it seems like only yesterday that we got him.” Indeed. Joe’s start with us was a bit shaky. The social worker bringing him over from his foster care family in Queens to join us in Manhattan had her car hit hard in the side on … Read more

I am just getting to the July 14-16 weekend, because I only just put the pictures on the computer. We rendezvoused at the Back Bay Hilton with two other couples Friday night – Mike and Karen Riner and Paul and Doreen Novotny. Paul and Doreen organized the weekend, including picking out the restaurants (Mexican Friday … Read more

Most people have some type of political agenda – or perhaps values agenda is a better description. And this is no less true for scientists. And frequently it colors their judgement and purported objectivity. Here is an excellent article on science, politics and embryo stem cell research (FULL DISCLOSURE: I helped design the referenced web … Read more

Just got back this evening from a weekend in Boston. An excellent time. Had a good laugh over this t-shirt we spotted at a kiosk outside the Boston Aquarium. That’s Johnny Damon, as he looked back when he played for the Red Sox. Of course now he’s a clean-shaven Yankee, patrolling center field. If you … Read more

A caribbean motif tonite (see prior post). I got wind of this book when an excerpt was published in – of all places – the Wall Street Journal. It turns out the author, Christopher John Farley, is an editor at the Journal, which probably explains how it ended up being excerpted there. If you don’t … Read more