Cabin in the Woods   Michigan is playing Notre Dame today down at South Bend. I wish it was at the Big House in Ann Arbor. That would be the place to renew the rivalry. They haven’t met in a few years, schedules and contracts and all that. Michigan goes in ranked number seven in […]

Saturated The nice people on NPR tell me this will be a fine day, high seventies, breezy and pleasant. Another wonderful day. I left work early yesterday and went to Arlington. I stopped at the Harris Teeter over at Pentagon City to buy flowers and drove up to the  front gate at Ft. Myer.   […]

Little Traverse Bay   The sun continues to flood the Northland. I was lazy, and lay abed until nearly quarter of nine. When I emerged from my suite Dad asked if I wished to go to the flea market out in the country, north of Harbor Springs. I told him that sounded fine and when […]

The Green Flash   It didn’t happen tonight. It rarely does. I’ve been looking for it on five oceans. I�m not smart enough to know what the traditional seven seas are. But I can count the ones I have steamed on and looked at the horizon.  but I got it last night. Nailed it. Right […]

IThe Tuesday lunch group meets at a public house on US-131 just north of town, past the old Methodist encampment of gingerbread Victorian homes called Bayview. It is my favorite thing here in town, the fanciful campus of frame cottages that date to the 1880s. Some have been restored in astonishing detail, all the filigree […]

I am on one of the school machines in the library in the Basement of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. This is last official act before heading to the airport. I write as a recent graduate of the shortest course (three weeks) which officially qualify you as a Graduate of Harvard University. That […]

It is all over but the leaving, now. How can you get these emotions in less than a month? Strange is the human heart. We actually ARE Harvard people now, in our small way. Amazing. But it was the commitment of Marie-Christine and Roger Porter that made us feel this way. I think back over […]

The Union Oyster House I spent most of Sunday afternoon patiently waiting at toll plaza backups on I-95 coming back south from Maine. I go in right around cocktail hour, returned the vehicle undamaged and was on foot again. I asked my room-mate if he wanted to pencil in a trip downtown before we left, […]

Week Two �This place is an analogy of America� I shouted over the din. �It is busy for ten hours straight. It is an assembly line. The burgers fly off the grill and onto the plates. The wait-staff then shovels the plates to the people who come through the door in an endless line.� The […]

The Green Monster The Red Sox got shelled last night at Fenway Park, 8 to 1,  and our class was there to see it. The A�s had their number. All the BOSOX production came in the first inning, couple hits, one meager run. The next eight went unanswered to the guys in the green and […]