Thursday, June 13, 2013

San Antonio - June 2013

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Dale Chihuly's "Fiesta Tower" at the San Antonio Central Library Born and raised in San Antonio, I left after graduating h...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Amend to fix (some of) the Senate's problems

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The Los Angeles Times printed this letter from me today: Let's go a step further: I suggest that we amend the Constitution's advi...

Maryland (May 2013)

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Ben and Anita I went to Havre de Grace, Maryland for my nephew Ben's wedding. Here are more wedding photos. Each photo has a captio...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

North Carolina, April 2013

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Liz and Jed, plus Cherie, the mother of the bride I went to the Research Triangle region of North Carolina for my niece Liz's wedding...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

"Repelled, held by the Church" (March, 2013)

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I sent the following letter to the Los Angeles Times (not published). Gale Holland ( "Repelled, held by the Church" , March 1,...

My broken fibula

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My broken fibula During our tour of Chiapas , while in San Cristobal, I had a touch of diarrhea. One night, in a strange hotel room, wh...

Chiapas, Jan. 2013

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Victor and Rodney trying on traditional native clothes in Zinacantan. Sumidero Canyon Victor and I spent a week in Chiapas. (More phot...

Yucatán, Winter 2012-2013

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Colorful houses in Merida. (More here .) This winter, I spent 6½ weeks in Mexico with Victor. Of course, he had to work most days, so I...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Popular voting and same-sex marriage (Nov. '12)

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I sent the following letter to the Washington Post , hoping that if it was printed, Supreme Court justices would see it (not published): T...
Monday, October 22, 2012

A childhood memory

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Explorer 1 Late one night when I was 7 years old, my father took me out in our front yard. It was a clear night, and we could see lots ...