Scotty has a business trip to White Plains, NY next week so we are all driving him up. Yes, a little strange, but John and Caitlin have Friday and Monday off. My original plan was to drive up Sunday and see a NY museum Monday. But Caroline heard we were coming and talked us into […]
Look at this link and see. (We got it from Stewart.) We care where he is because 24 is one of Caitlin’s and Scotty’s shows which they always watch together. They like to wait until it has been going about 15 minutes and then start watching on the DVR so they don’t have to wait […]
My initial thoughts on the recent “Let’s Talk about How Badly the White House Handled the Hurricane” articles were just to let sleeping dogs lie. There are many things a lot more important that need to be discussed. But now that the White House is balking on releasing the papers I’m all for pursuing the […]
Tuesday morning on my third or fourth try to wake Caitlin I said, “If Jack Bauer was here, he would say, ‘Do it now.’” I found it much more amusing than Caitlin. For those who don’t follow 24 (which is why Caitlin was so sleepy) Jack Bauer is the main character. Joel Achenbach also used […]
She would write about Bragelina and K-Fed and other celebrity gossip. I know because instead of sending me interesting, informative things about her life at Westminster she keeps me up to date on all these trendy things. And occasionally throws me a bone like “Today I went to the gym with the hockey team, that […]
Part of the benefit of going to a fancy shmancy school is that you have guest lectures. A recent one was Yale Law Professor Stephen L. Carter. While Caroline had only a few specific comments about the lecture she did think it was the best one they have had. Here is the Westminster Web site […]
I can’t believe the West Wing is being cancelled. Well, actually I can. Leo’s dead, the president is old and tired looking, Toby’s indicted, and no one acts like the job is fun anymore. I’ve been slowly watching the 1st season of West Wing that Caroline gave me for Christmas and the White House was […]
Louise often writes about baksheesh and bribery in Egypt. We also have that kind of thing, but here we call it “lobbying” and I don’t think any reforms will take place soon. I thought Howard Kurtz did an excellent job of summing up how this is not a new area of reform. Too many […]
Dilly dally boy has weekly homework - generally three math sheets. We’ve taken the “do it all in one night” approach so we don’t have to get him going three nights a week. Once he starts he can do each page in about 5 minutes and he can cheerfully work for 15 so they all […]
Caitlin was very helpful in writing the post about her. But I’ll have to do Caroline’s by myself. I keep thinking about how wonderful she is, too. But we really, really, miss her. When she is home we pretty much stick together as a family and don’t go off in as many different directions. A […]