Mae Travels

My new Mona Lisa Piggy Bank, a hand-made ceramic from Peru, purchased at Peaceable Kingdom in downtown Ann Arbor. I'm so delighted w...

The Dutch countryside is splendid; it looks like a series of painting from the Dutch Golden Age. We loved windmills, sheep and cows, ca...

There's water everywhere: canals, little ditches, the Rhine River... Kayaks on a canal Sailing ships docked on the Rhine River...

During the interval of our concert at the Amsterdam Concert-Gebouw tonight. We heard one piece by Ravel and several by Beethoven, includin...

We arrived in Amsterdam yesterday morning. With great luck, our hotel room was ready at 9 AM, and we had a lovely day. Getting ready to g...

Illustration from today's "Ethicist" column in the New York Times. The ethical question: is it ok for someone to sketch st...

Riots in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris, July 20, 2014. Photo from Haaretz. Paris "inside the walls" is a peaceful and beautiful...

When I think of Paris, vignettes from the past, from novels, and from films fill my mind's eye -- along with the standard images of boul...

Ibrahim's Booth Last week was the Ann Arbor Art Fair, a madhouse of art and commercial selling of all sorts of merchandise, snacks, ...

A few days ago, we rented a canoe and paddled around the pond at Gallup Park looking for birds. Len has already posted them on Flickr , but ...

This agave plant at the Botanical Gardens showed signs of its one and only blooming cycle a few months ago. It has now grown through the ...

A Review of our Next Book Club Selection Jill Lepore: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Missed opportunities. Miss...

Yesterday's activity was a bird watching tour with Hawaii Forest and Trail : a highly-recommended operation that lived up to its repu...

The "Divers Down" flag went up on the boat at around 9:00 this morning. First three groups of divers got in the water, then me, ...