My room-mate Loren had his wife and a friend over last night so there was general confusion in the residence and Mr. Wu our Chinese roomate (Taiwan) ghosted in and out. It was good to hear women’s voices breaking the normal silence of this apartment. I am a little homesick, and a little fuzzy this […]

Thursday in Cambridge was sunny and hot. The humidity is back here on the Charles and people are exercising early. Bikes are flying, women are jogging and rowers are pulling hard on their oars before it gets too hot. The Kennedy school is taking an infusion of new students in another mid-career management seminar. Our […]

(let�s get) Get Ready for School This is a big day, a traveling day. This morning my flotsam and jetsam were strewn around me. Garment bag, duffle, briefcase. Packing for three weeks is an undertaking of no small order. I had my little list. Some of it I accomplished. I triaged the bills that will […]

11 August 2002 Some things have changed and others have not. George has married Judy, a successful attorney from Bath, and they have produced two wonderful kids, Annie and Frazier. They now occupy the old family cottage and the parents have bought the place next door, up the hill. Cousins are across the street and […]

27 December 2002   Once Over, Lightly   It is five in the morning here on Arlington Boulevard, but it is ten hundred hours in London, and the world has already been hard at work. I stumble out of bed and note that Venus is hanging in the east and the Moon is at half. […]

24 December 2002   Manger Square   Vicky Barker is in good voice this morning. It is Christmas Eve and there are some important gestures happening around the world. The President of the United States has given me the afternoon off. Not me alone, of course, it is the entire Federal Workforce. Because of the […]