My great-grandmother, Nan, died Tuesday night and the services were to be held this weekend in my hometown in Woodstock, NY. Since I’ve been away every single weekend for the past 4 weekends and this being the last “official” weekend of the summer with Labor Day this Monday, I did not want to drive up [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Green Travelin’
Posted in The Pleasures of Life on August 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
More Evidence of Chinese Brutality
Posted in Oy! Life! on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bloggers have been quick to announce the conditions that are or were happening in China during the Beijing Olympics. QueenAlpo here talks about a Chinese dancer who may be paralyzed from the waist-down and Chinese police roughing up an accredited British journalist. Then this morning I read this AP wire report on ESPN.com about how [...]
The Image of the Olympics
Posted in The Pleasures of Life on August 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If anything, this image will define the Olympics for Michael Phelps. This morning (China time) Phelps and his three teammates edged the French relay team in the 4×100 meter freestyle by eight-hundredths of a second. That’s .800. That’s like a fingernail length. And the face Phelps put on, screaming like a madman, and his face [...]
Beetle Blood and Microwaves
Posted in The CK & Alli Reality Show on August 3, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Two weeks ago Alli returned from a deaf yoga retreat. At one point during the week where we were paging each other during the day (she had no computer/Internet access at the Ashram), she boldly declared that the Kaftan household would be microwave and plastic container-free. Now, waitamin. Decisions like that should be made jointly, [...]
