A week ago today, while in New York, Carrie and I wandered down to see what was happening at #occupywallstreet and then have a look at the 9/11 memorial. It was not a special day in the movement’s history–no failed attempts to take over the Brooklyn Bridge, no major unions marching down to join the …
Category Archives: USA-Re-Entry-Issues
Varia
Yet another overdue entry. Life has a way of being busy even when it’s not. Or rather, we don’t have a ton of unstructured time. Last week, our path takes us a little out of our way to a place called Philz Coffee. It’s a chain, I’m pretty sure. Anyway, we’ve driven by the place …
Yoga Review
Today I had my first yoga class ever. You might be asking how it came to be that a person such as me winds up in a yoga class. Convenience is king. A group of people got together to hire a yoga teacher to come up to the Center twice a week. I was assured …
Crappy American Monochrome Paper Money
The title says it all. As my mom pointed out to me, American money now has some color variation in different denominations. But looking down into my wallet, all I see is a sea of green. Like those grass lawns that shouldn’t exist in Arizona. Canadian money comes in different colors so that you instantly …
California Crazy
Shortly after our arrival in our new neighborhood, we went out to the car to find this envelope affixed to the windshield: Clearly someone had noticed the Quebec license plates. Inside was the following letter: Welcome to Silicon Valley, where everyone has a startup company and is an entrepreneurial genius.* Which means, of course, that …