I arrived safely in Philadelphia, and so did all my worldly goods (or if they didn’t, I’ll find out soon enough when I get around to unpacking the boxes of dishes and glassware). Next up: the Benjaminian pleasure of unpacking my library, interspersed with far more prosaic tasks like figuring out how to maximize every […]
I’m just back from Vancouver, where I and a couple of friends spent the weekend for the wedding of a mutual friend of ours. Among the highlights of our visit: hiking five miles around the periphery of Stanley Park, watching fireworks over the English Bay, admiring the sealife at the Vancouver Aquarium, and hanging out […]