I returned from Massachusetts last evening. The Amtrak pulled into NY Penn Station a half hour early–!–and rather than wait, I walked a block to the PATH train, got to Hoboken, and took a direct train home.
I’d been in Cambridge and environs since Monday; the culmination of the visit was a recital in the Institute’s [...]
This Thursday, March 11, I’m playing at noon at the Chapel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buxtehude, Krebs, Lübeck, Pinkham.
It was at a memorable visit to MIT in the fall of 1983 that I got word from home that my father had passed away unexpectedly. On a day pouring with rain, with some time [...]
We watched a disturbing program on PBS last evening, titled Suicide Tourist. It was about Craig Ewert, a man who suffered from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Five months after his diagnosis, he traveled to Zurich and died via assisted suicide.
I’m not going to judge the man, and I hope he is safe in his Father’s [...]
I’ve lived in this state since 2006, and recently begun to learn a bit about it. Typical New Yorker that I am, I have always tended to dismiss this ancient colony as “Oh, you’re from Jersey? What exit?”
This is a fascinating place.
For one thing, the current rough distinction between North and South Jersey replaces the [...]
There are silly laws on the books of every state, naturally. New Jersey specifically forbids “frowning” at a police officer, as well as “slurping one’s soup.”
I’m also told it’s technically illegal for a male to knit during fishing season; to pass a horse-drawn carriage in an automobile; and even to “delay or detain” a homing [...]
Power is still out at church; building temperature is quite low, and NO services today. Also, no train service, and at the moment still no car (though a solution is imminent).
I’m considering attending a local church in a while. In the meantime, we’ve been reading Psalms and Revelation this morning. The Psalms are not for [...]
How on earth could I have forgotten this?
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Complete with nude organist.
Note, if you wish, that the organ music is being picked out note-by-note, without harmony. He’s probably good with the Choir pistons, too.
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I understand that my church has had no power for two days now. “Don’t consider coming up,” I’m told. Meanwhile, our next (I hope) car is awaiting us. We’re hoping to retrieve it today.
Church is in Orange County, the hardest-hit area in the recent storm. Three feet of snow fell at Harriman, right where we [...]
This evening, whatever else we do, I’m going to make a tofu caprese…we got some very good tomatoes from some faraway land that’s not snowed in, and some firm tofu…we always have olive oil, balsamic, and basil to hand. The tofu will replace the usual mozzarella.
I may marinate it for a while to give it [...]
