Philadelphia Flipping through pages of the New Yorker on the plane to DC yesterday, they had a picture of James Brown announcing that the was playing two gigs back to back in the city on New Year’s Eve. As usual, I imagine. This year though the hardest working man in show business didn’t make it …
Category: Personal Writings
Tai Chi, Kites, and the Twist
New Orleans A couple of last, personal notes on our delegation’s recent trip to Japan and China, and then we will get on with 2007, thank you! My favorite memories of this trip are going to be early mornings in Shanghai in the pre–dawn fog and smog and watching the older people at their various exercises and …
New Years
Beijing It would have been late in the States, but it was midday in China as we watched the news and constant speculation that Saddam Hussein was quite possibly being transferred from American to Iraqi hands in preparation for his execution. There is an other worldly quality in seeing what passes for “breaking news” when one …