I started this blog in July 2009. The first post of substance was about my mother, Marilyn Prater, who died in January 2008. Today is Mother’s Day in the US, so I thought I would highlight those words and images again. I think of Mom every day, and I’m prouder than ever of what she [...]
In April I went to London for business. (I stayed with Lauren and Jason in St. John’s Wood – when they moved there from NYC a few years ago, Lauren kept a still-funny blog about the tribulations Americans’ settling in London.) While in The Smoke I took some photos, a handy ninety-two of which I [...]
My wife grew up in Pocatello, Idaho (famous, to some, for the song sung by my not-so-distant cousin Judy Garland in A Star is Born). A few weeks ago we visited my parents-in-law there. I took two small collections of photos. The first includes some signs from a shooting range that we visited one morning. [...]
My mother, Marilyn Prater, died of cancer on January 17, 2008. I had always known – without her often saying so – that she was proud of me. But it wasn’t until after she died, when I saw her friends and students come together to honor her memory, that I thought to be proud of [...]
