Dinner with Friends

(currently playing: A:Xus, Soundtrack for Life) My friend, Liz, was born in Saudi Arabia. Ethnically, though, she’s about as Arabian as me (i.e. about as Arabian as your average horseshoe crab). Grew up speaking Arabian as much as she spoke English. So we had dinner tonight. Buck and Dwight (her husband) kindly accompanied us. And Continue reading Dinner with Friends

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