Aug 24 2019
Villa St. Joseph 2019 Film Noir Festival
This summer I bought an Amazon Fire connection for the television. I chose for the summer’s binge watching film noir. Here are the films: [dkpdf-button]
Aug 4 2019
Northern Spain and Portugal 2019
August 4, 2019 Judith and I took a two week driving trip to northern Spain and Portugal. We started in at the Gran Hotel Sardinero on the beach. We went on to Oviedo, then the Parador de Santiago in Santiago de Compostela, the Monasterio de Santa Estevo, Braga Portugal and the Pousad Mosteiro de Guimaraes […]
Jul 3 2019
70th Birthday Party
For my 70th birthday I rented Chateau Briottieres near Angers France. I hosted 30 guests for three days. Carolyn, Brian, Sam and Camila David Galloway Tim and Tom Sandy and Keith Josh and Jennie Moe and Becky Suzanne and Rick Vera, Lubo, and Christo Erzsi and Charles Dave and Diane Stephen and Roc Janet and […]
Jun 4 2019
Peloponnese Greece 2019
In June I took a solo trip to the Peloponnese. Judith was visiting New York to be with Nadine after Ed died. I rented a small Fiat and went to Nafplio, Mycenae, the Mani Peninsula, and the mountains.
May 11 2019
Brittany 2019
Judith and I went to Angers to inspect the chateau for my birthday party and then went on to a week in Brittany.
Apr 9 2019
Milan Design Week 2019
In 2019 we returned to France via Milan and Switzerland. We attended Design week for the first four days. We went to three very interesting restaurants Boccondivino is both simple and sophisticated, studied with passion to enhance the combination with the wines proposed by the sommelier: after a prosecco aperitif and croutons to the game […]
Feb 7 2019
Tim’s Death
After a two-year fight against lung cancer Tim died in his home in Sunnyvale.
Jan 18 2019
Chile 2019
In early 2019 Judith and I took a winter vacation in Chile. We flew into Santiago. There we walked the old town and the Italia Barrio. We flew to the lake district and took a tour of wineries. We flew south to Puerto Montt and rented a car. For 9 days we drove south through […]
Dec 1 2018
The Ages of Daniel
I have been thinking of my life in stages. Stage Ages Dates Issues Youth 0-18 49-67 Becoming myself University 18-29 67-79 Going into world and starting family Washington 30-34 80-84 Creating new self in larger world QPC 1 34-44 85-94 Founding QPC to divorce and restart QPC 2 45-55 95-05 Second marriage and second QPC […]
Nov 12 2018
New York Theater
After returning to NYC in September we began to see a lot of theater. 11/21 Downstairs 11/11 Wild Goose Dreams 10/24 American Son 10/20 The Lion King with Sam and Camela 9/25 Uncle Vanya at Hunter College My Fair Lady The Ferryman (Irish times of troubles) Girl From the North Country (Dylan Songs) Come From […]
Sep 14 2018
Workout with Lance
In September 2018 I began intensive, hour long, workouts with Lance Bacchus at our coop gym. in March of 2020 we paused the workouts for the pandemic.
Aug 28 2018
Arles Photo 2018, 2021, 2022
We visited the Arles Photo Festival for the first time. We saw Picasso-Godard, Robert Kennedy Train, and many others Robert Frank In August of 2021. We returned to a quieter Arles. Most foreign tourists were gone. We particularly liked the Sabine weiss retrospective. In 2022 we combined Arles Photo with a road trip […]
Aug 9 2018
Semi-Annual Trip to the Piedmont
We drove the mini up over the Alps for our semi-annual Piedmont trip. We stayed first in Castello Rosso and then Castello di Guarene. We visited the frescos at Castello della Manta. Finally we stocked up on wine in Barbaresco, La Morra and Roero.
Aug 26 2019
Days
BY PHILIP LARKIN What are days for?Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over.They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that questionBrings the priest and the doctor In their long coatsRunning over the fields. At my 70th birthday celebration I raised the question with multiple; people what […]
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