Our friend Ed had an electric car in the seventies, and probably looked like a bit of a ninny tootling around town. Now he's our environment guru, in the days...

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The well-read person with whom I...

The appeal went out through the PTA at my kid’s school, organized by a couple from New Orleans, for supplies for the victims. Clothes, medicine, water, toys, food. Someone had loaned a huge truck, and was going to drive it down. By noon the next day there were boxes lining...

The Kabbalists say that the holy one of the universe is broken, and that we are extensions of the holy one and carry that brokenness inside of us. Our task is to fix our brokenness and hence the brokenness of the holy one. An unending task.

They say that...

I, like you, am shocked and saddened by the news from Mississippi and Louisiana. Apparently the best thing anybody can do right now is make a cash donation to a relief organization (say the American Red Cross) because the infrastructure doesn’t exist yet to get in clothing or other supplies....

I saw a great movie last night on TCM, called Island in the Sky, with John Wayne. It was about real life superheroes who were pilots in the U.S. Air Force. It beautifully illustrated the humanity and camaraderie amongst soldiers whose lives depend on each other.

It made me think...

I had just finished the part in Eric Haney’s memoir, “Inside Delta Force,” where Haney comes in to his rendezvous point, off of an eighteen hour, fifty-five mile hike, over rugged, dangerous, uncharted terrain, with seventy pounds of kit on his back, carrying a heavy sub-machine gun with no sling,...

My mother says she has a friend who converted her Range Rover to run on vegetable oil.

The twelve Scottish people I have spoken to so far are rather bemused that all those world leaders descended on Gleneagles in our own wee (but influential) Scotland.

Edinburgh is getting more crowded...

We are in Vermont on vacation. Our friend Anita was having trouble with raccoons going through her garbage. She caught one with a “have a heart” trap, and invited me, and my children, to come and feed and water it before she took it somewhere else to let it loose.

I was just in London making a movie for an Indian/British co production company. The movie and company are entitled Provoked. It’s about a young Indian woman (played by Aishwarya Rai) who, after years of abuse from her husband, is “provoked” into setting him on fire.

Kind of reverse suttee...