lunch

Lovely time at lunch today with the (large) crowd assembled to discuss My Name is Asher Lev. Maybe I will do On the Road next time. Rest of afternoon spent vegging with Georges Simenon, who I figured was reasonably different from Potok. Now I have an overwhelming sense of freedom, and two days to pack Continue reading lunch

music

Found a nice new program to keep the music on iTunes playing all day… LPlayer. This will help me finish up My Name is Asher Lev and associated work for the book club lunch tomorrow at the Mercantile Library, where I lead a discussion on that book. I have lots of information, especially on Jacques Continue reading music

fern bar lunch

Blog the bar… ok. Where we are at now is a bar called Teller’s. It’s called that because it occupies the building of what used to be a bank, before I was in high school. After that, it was several kinds of shops, including a (very tiny) mall. But the latest incarnation has taken root, Continue reading fern bar lunch

My name is…

I am working my way, fairly quickly, through Chaim Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev. On this coming Wednesday, I lead the monthly lunchtime book-club talk on it. I first read the book at the request of my high school English teacher. I had other English teachers at that school, but half the years, she Continue reading My name is…