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Went yesterday to MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art), the first stop in what turned out to be a day of acronyms: B&N, H&M, ABP. And the...

This is not a picture of Manhattan as seen from Brooklyn (it's from a recent muckraking article on cage-free chickens, the latest fad) -...

I'm picking my stuff up from my storage locker in New Jersey next weekend, so that means a few days camping out chez moi. It's kinda...

Our freshman orientation program this year centers around questions of "identity and migration." (I've shared one of the five...

So here it is, my new home! The inside's sadly empty, except for the luggage of P and A, who leave first thing tomorrow morning, and a f...

One of the joys of teaching at a liberal arts college is all the stuff you learn from your colleagues. Case in point: a focal point of the n...

I met my new landlady today, signed the lease ... it's final!! My new address: 265 Prospect Place, Apartment #1, Brooklyn, NY 11238! See...

Just saw the new documentary "No End in Sight," a heart-breaking account of all the things the US did wrong in Iraq after the inva...

Perrier, who introduced mineral water to the US, has an odd new campaign. I guess being French no longer sells, so we're being taught to...

Nipped into a bookstore yesterday to kill some time before seeing a film ("The Simpsons Movie," if you must know), and saw book af...

For the week I'm housesitting for a friend who lives on an archetypal Park Slope street. With his wife, son and dog M lives in the top h...

I'm feeling a bit out of synch with my colleagues. Having just spent a year of luxurious leave, I'm actually eager to get back into ...

Don't imagine, Australian readers, that I'm not keeping up with what you're getting up to down there. Consulting The Age is one...

For the next week, I'm house-sitting for a colleague who is on holiday with his family in Nova Scotia. M is a poet, and the big temptat...

Flying again over the splendors of the American West today I was once again over- whelmed by the beauty of land and cloud formations, transp...

My 3-week stint of relaxed days on the Pacific ends tomorrow. I haven't been to the beach as much as I expected - the marine layer of co...

The daughter of an old friend has done something really cool (not that she wasn't cool already): she's walked the Camino de Santiago...

Here are some pictures of the blue agaves along the Guy Fleming Trail in Torrey Pines State Reserve. A docent (my father) tells me they'...

I'll be back in New York in four days - high time to get a fish taco at Rubio's, a local San Diego-based chain and favorite of my si...

After years of PC toil, my dad switched to Apple today! (I had nothing to do with it, having long ago stopped making offhand remarks about t...