The past two days have been gorgeous here: warm and lovely, with the luminous blue sky and bright white light that signal springtime in Brighton. It’s been so nice out that I’ve found it exceedingly difficult to keep my mind on the matter at h…
A trivial matter.…
Whether or not ETA was responsible for the atrocity in Madrid yesterday, there was a very powerful editorial in the New York Times (login: wrreaders) today by Javier Marias on life in Spain under the shadow of ETA. Everything he says about ETA coincides w…
I’m back from Paris - only slightly the worse for wear. The weekend itself was great: we showed up Friday evening and immediately hit the town for a hearty French dinner. Then we sat in a brasserie until past midnight (I love how late Parisians go o…
Today I’m off to Paris for the weekend, courtesy of my very classy brother and his wonderful Christmas present to Jeremy and me. We hit some major medieval sites on our last weekend in Paris (Notre Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, the Catacombs, the museum of…