Sunday, March 06, 2011. Nora was the only baby who ate two quesadillas at lunch. We painted with chopsticks today. She LOVED it and she was MAD when we were all done! Nora loves rolling around on the tumble mats. Nora loved running under the parachute as it fell on her head.

Stories, parables, opinions and trivial bits of information from a fellow sojourner. Wednesday, 21 July 2010. My trip to Coney Island. When you disembark from the subway at Coney Island and leave the station you are immediately overwhelmed by this Hot Dog Mecca. I was reminded of an Old Curmudgeon joke about two nuns and their first visit to New York City. Eager patrons await their turn to place their order. As I moved to the front of the line I saw a plethora of hot dogs just awaiting their demise.

Parables, insights and stories from Bath, England by an American expatriate. Sunday, February 08, 2009. Miliband wriggles in the Guantanamo net. The foreign secretary wants to draw a line under the torture row but more truth will out. At the end of all this we have a mere two successful prosecutions of minor functionaries in Al-Qaeda, hundreds of released detainees whose hatred of the West, if it was not ther.