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The Examined Life
A week ago I wrote two posts, one about Under Tower Peak, the thriller I had begun reading, and one about The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail, the report on the route...
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Milestone, V
Ron’s View regulars know that when December 29 comes around, it’s time for my annual post on the number of miles I’ve driven my car in the past year, with additional analysis of the monthly/annual...
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Paul Sally
[Sharat Ganapati, The Chicago Maroon] University of Chicago mathematician Paul Sally died last Monday at the age of 80. I got to spend time with him during my year in the department a few decades ago...
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New Residents
It’s been seven months since we lost our sweet Emma. Gail has insisted that once the remodel is done, we will bring home new residents. I found myself in no hurry. But with the remodel showing no...
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The Skies Belong To Us
I started this post a week ago. Where did the week go? Meanwhile, I was catching up just minutes ago on my blog feeds before turning to this post. The latest was a New Yorker post about this weekend’s...
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MoMA Expansion
Concept sketch for The Museum of Modern Art. View from 53rd Street [Diller Scofidio + Renfro] Martin Filler, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books on architecture and art, posted a...
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Ruby and Charlee
It’s not my intent to turn Ron’s Blog into Our Cute Kitties. But really, how can I resist? The eight-month-old sisters joined us twelve days ago. Under strict orders from Janice the adoption...
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Same Old
I’m old enough to have watched President Nixon deliver many a speech in which truth took a vacation, yet I was naive enough to imagine that it was still in residence. Well, I learned my lesson....
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There’s Always Harlem
The Upper West Side: the Majestic and the Dakota at center and right-center In case you missed it, be sure to read the real estate article in today’s NYT on the couple who have been renting in the...
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I Knew It
[Pearls Before Swine, January 12, 2014] I’ve suspected for some time that the reason names of people elude me, even as I picture the people and provide details of their lives, is that I know too much....
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Wild and Crazy WSJ
A Jewish shop, the morning after Kristallnacht [From Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority] When I first saw Tom Perkins’ letter to the WSJ yesterday, I was sufficiently...
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Tenth of December
I’ve been starting and stopping a series of books for the last couple of weeks, unable to settle on which one to read. One is Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and...
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A Dreadful Deceit
In early December, I learned about Jacqueline Jones’ new book A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America from Robert Paul Wolff, who made brief but excited mention of...
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Obituary of the Day
Not being a regular reader of Greenwich Time, I had missed Leonard Smith’s obituary a week ago. But thanks to a retweet two days ago by New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch, I got a second chance. We...
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Joshua Bell Recital
[From Joshua Bell's website] Half a year ago, on the morning when Seattle Symphony tickets for the season went on sale for non-subscribers, Gail and I selected two concerts we anticipated might be...
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Seahawks!
Richard Sherman and the victorious Seahawks [Jonathan Ferrey, Getty Images] I’m a week late on this one, but I shouldn’t let the moment go without comment. A week ago, the Seattle Seahawks were...
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In Praise of the CBC
The Winter Olympics are here. And, thank god, Canada’s CBC is broadcasting them. No need to wait for NBC’s evening tape-delayed evening prime time coverage. No need to have events broken into little...
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Too Late
Bob Feller throwing no-hitter on opening day, 1940, at age 21. [From Sports Illustrated] Joe Posnanski has been running a series of posts on the 100 Greatest Baseball Players Ever. I gather this will...
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2014 Abel Prize
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters this morning announced the recipient of its 2014 Abel Prize, the twelfth one awarded. With mathematicians so rarely in the news, I have made it a point...
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Chicken Parm Pizza
I love pizza. I love chicken parm. Why not combine them? They do that at Kitchen Kabaret, the amazing food emporium located not far from where I grew up on Long Island. We were back there last...
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