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One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand – New York Times Worst news I’ve heard in ages. (tags: travel) BlogWrite for CEOs: Steve Rubel reveals his 4-hour a day blogging playbook Gotta hang on to…

A dead cert – Sunday Times – Times Online I read everything Philip Roth writes, so I’ll be getting this shortly. But it sounds a bit, um, grim. (tags: books)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The Queen’s 80th birthday Lunch and the pitfalls of modern life Don’t forget: Friday is the Queen’s birthday. Or one of her birthdays, anyway. She’s got two, at least. There’ll always be an England.…

Will the woman who wrote this book turn me into a real watercolorist? We’re about to find out.

Link: At Some Medical Schools, Humanities Join the Curriculum – New York Times.

Finally, finally, after years of planning, considering, and having the pans at hand, I have made, for a dinner party, Martha’s Easter Egg Cakes. Very good indeed, looked great–and far more trouble than they were worth. But everyone oohed and…

Just returned from Easter Vigil services at the Oratory of St. Boniface, a local parish with wonderful music. It’s a beautiful service, beginning outside in the courtyard in darkness; then a fire is lit and blessed, and passed to individual…

The occasional casual reader, ie, Mom, has been heard to complain that this blog doesn’t get updated often enough. So today I thought I would give you some photos of my street. Does this critter convince you that you shouldn’t…

Just returned from an interesting week in Accra, Ghana, where a London colleague and I were teaching a workshop in scientific publication. Accra, the capital, is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean, and much different from the other 2…

Last night I went to hear Kitty Carlisle Hart (she, of “What’s My Line?” fame in my life. I didn’t know she was in a Marx Brothers film in 1935!) perform at the Regency. Since I didn’t get to see…