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Byron says sneak another peek

Please remember to sneak another Peek each week… There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture in the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. –Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto IV, stanza 178 […]

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A delightful chance meeting

In March, while traveling on the east coast, I had dinner with a dear friend, Ted Maris-Wolf. We splurged, dining at the Fat Canary, a special-event favorite restaurant of mine back in the day (circa 2008). We had a wide-ranging conversation, from our families and children to mutual friends and the institutions we had in common: […]

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