“There’s something wrong with our worm, Earl”

Harlando’s 9th birthday party was held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. To help the 8 kids stay entertained and burn off energy, B&F devised a loooooooooooong list of scavenger hunt questions that sent the kids tearing across the museum for a couple of hours, until they uncovered the secret phrase “There’s something wrong [...]

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Harlando conducts an attack

I’m just back from 4 days in Cleveland with friends, where we celebrated a traditional Jewish Christmas with Chinese food, movies and games-games-games.  That’s what I call family values. The movie BH & I snuck away to see in the theater—The King’s Speech—was beautifully done. Colin Firth (who so often seems to play an American’s stereotype of a stuffy upper-class Englishman in American-made movies) was really moving.  See it in the theater before [...]

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+13

Thirteen years ago, I threw a shower for a brand new baby boy named Steven Avram.  There were a bunch of theater and English grad students there (including his mother), and Steven received a lot of plastic bathtub-ready baby books, which were opened amidst jokes about Baby’s First Grammatology.  This weekend I flew to Cleveland for Steven’s bar mitzvah, [...]

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