Every Stone

So I leave for California on Wednesday at 6 am — necessitating a 3 am drive to Baltimore — and I’ll come back for a single day before leaving for three weeks.

The glory of higher education: While a number of colleges have instilled honor codes in recent years, overall there is little instruction about cheating or systematic attempt to combat it. It is very difficult to measure, but clearly widespread, with one study reporting as many as 70 percent of undergraduates admit at least one instance […]

The class party at the farm went well on Saturday with high attendance, although probably not 100 as RSVP’d. Food was great; whiffleball was fun, although a spectacular if ill-fated slide into first was followed by a trip and fall right off home the next inning. Today we went to the Nats game, E included, […]

Man. I really liked the Iceland Green Movement. Too bad they weren’t more organized. May 2007 May 2003 Preliminary Actual Independence Party 25 22 Progressive Party 7 12 Social Democrats 18 20 Left-Green Movement 9 5 Liberal Party 4 4 Iceland Movement 0 0

Two weeks from today, I’ll be in San Francisco. The travel plan is Baltimore to San Francisco, then a drive up to Monterey. The next day is the debate, followed by Saturday flight out of San Jose to Los Angeles to see Ines and a few days before I have to take the late-night flight […]

So, I’m peeling, which has me in an absolutely miserable mood, but the good news is that Indian mangoes are on their way to Washington, DC. The relatively small, tennis ball-size Alphonsos that Savani sent to the Food section as samples last week had thick yellow skins that peeled back easily to reveal saffron-colored flesh. […]