Mae Travels

In answer to a question about the state of our state from my friend in England I wrote: The University of Michigan can hide its head in the ...

As we took off from National Airport this afternoon, we could see the Washington Monument and the Mall. We didn't visit downtown D.C. th...

First, our garden after we raked the leaves and trimmed the bushiest of the ornamental grass. And second, a few photos from a walk in the pa...

Chabon's new book disappointed me. I hoped for another Yiddish Policemen's Union . I didn't find what I expected. "I am a g...

Time magazine for Halloween provided a list of the most horrifying horror films. My favorite choice: The inclusion of Bambi delights me: I...

I was horrified by the Los Angeles fires last week, especially because so many human mistakes contributed to the horror. I found the followi...

This morning our house guest Yair showed us a video about his experience as a pilot in the Israeli air force. In the late 1980s, he flew mis...

As my friends know, I don't scuba dive, but I often accompany Lenny on dive boats. In May, 2005, we had a week of extraordinary diving a...

On each of our trips to Israel we have frequently driven past a huge garbage mountain. Towering over the flat landscape, the garbage makes a...

We went on a walk today, a beautiful and exceptionally warm day, perfect for going down to the river through the Arboretum. Various improvem...

The most dramatic story of the Iwo Jima flag raisers is Ira Hayes. He said: "How could I feel like a hero when only five men in my plat...

I've been reading Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley. Since our bookclub selection process took place last winter, it's a coinci...

Paul Krugman's column today has a wonderful set of observations on Al Gore and the Nobel Prize: Krugman: Gore Meltdown . He says, among ...

Today is Blog Action Day. I have already posted my thoughts on the environment, focus of today's action. I agree that danger to the envi...

For Blog Action Day October 15, I would like to describe Alice and Miriam's recent fund-raiser, which they created themselves. Their goa...

You can travel without going far. Shop at IKEA ! Today I bought a paring knife for $2.99. It came with a booklet explaining important things...

New York Times banner: Breaking News 7:02 AM ET: Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature I've been a Doris Lessing fan for year...

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is a very popular book. It deserves to be popular. Gruen gives us a first-person story of a very old man ...