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Today I was sharing a cafe table with two pilots who spent the entire time talking about the missing jet. Their talk was loud and showy and handsomely studded with jargonese. They kept glancing over, ...read more
This morning instead of coffee I tried an Ayurverdic broth of boiled milk, powdered turmeric and powdered ginger. Surprisingly creamy and good. Then this was set in front of me: a salad of fruits with ...read more
Brother has a new baby and is taking paternity leave. In the struggle over dinner to translate the concept it came out wrong & I pounced. Eternity leave! That's when you just walk out and ...read more
Found this dim-lit, twinkling little bar in an unexpected quarter of town. All seats were empty and the bar owner and his staff were sat around a corral of lounges playing The Cure and playing ...read more
Felt a little jangled this morning after accidentally intercepting a phone call from my Aunt Who Has Found God. The last time we spoke at length was several years back and she told me I ...read more
We ventured into a very comfy, very shabby secondhand bookshop with couches, because I had read my way through everything in the bedside pile and demolished most of a manuscript someone sent me yesterday afternoon. ...read more
Brother is staying for a few days & brother and Berliner are sharing a desk. They don't know each other very well. I walk in on them sitting side by side with their computers open, ...read more
Visited my twitter account & brushed all the cobwebs away. I could write a book: Twitter, I'm Doing It Wrong. See I set up umpteen channels, so as not to bore people who don't want ...read more
