from Ireland

Just when I’d begun to feel that all Europeans were anti-American, I come across Eamonn Fitzgeral’ds latest entry… Thanksgiving for the indispensable nation Seeing that some 60 percent of Rainy Day’s site visits originate from the USA, it would be churlish indeed to let Thanksgiving pass without giving thanks to all those Americas, not just Continue reading from Ireland

Thanks!

Thanks for my friends for being: Mordechai and Chaya, Tom and Barbara, and Dafna and Erica and Steve and you too, Ruben! And definitely, thanks to y’all who stop by here!

nyc

New York City is, as I had thought it would be, busy being New York City. As the plane passed over Manhattan on its way to LGA, I could see even that its wound is healing: the WTC site, from the air, looks much less like the site of a disaster, and rather now the Continue reading nyc

morning travel

To NYC this morning for turkey days… but what to do before/after turkey has been consumed? Maybe I’ll go to the MMA and see my favorite tea cups. I haven’t visited them in over 20 years. They are Chinese, from the Sung dynasty (about 1100 or 1200). One has Rabbit’s Fur glaze, and one has Continue reading morning travel