I got Grace’s report card today. I am reminded of why we are paying tuition for a 5 year old to go to school and play. Wow! They really seem to know my child. Of note is the eerie symmetry in her weakest link being music, where there are real questions about her “ability to [...]
Highlight of this week. Meeting baby William Block on Tuesday afternoon. He was just divine and slept in my arms the whole time. Kara and Jason are fabulous. I’m nostalgic for that incredibly exhausting, overwhelming, emotional time – I don’t know that I’d do it again but I can now recognize what a transformative experience [...]
Mood-capturing photograph of Whit by Gracie, Tuesday evening. Email this post
Continuing with the Obama love-fest I began after reading Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement, this letter from Toni Morrison really moved me. I confess I was one of those who associate wisdom with a certain age, but her assertion that it’s a quality inherited and innate rather than learned is interesting. I’m not totally sure I agree, [...]
Charles Hotel courtyard lights, last Friday evening about 6pm. I love this blog post from a man named Eric Zorn. He lists 50 things he’s learned in 50 years of life. A very valuable exercise for each of us, I think. A few of my favorites of his: 10. Empathy is the greatest virtue. From [...]
A President Like My Father Caroline Kennedy’s op-ed endorsement of Barack Obama in today’s New York Times brought me to tears. Her words remind me that I’ve watched several people whom I’ve never even heard talk about politics throw themselves into the race. I’ve gotten phone calls and emails from people I never even knew [...]
William Perry Reinhardt BlockJanuary 23, 20088 lbs 12 oz Welcome, baby boy!!!!! Email this post
The most recent Princeton Alumni Weekly has a list of the 25most influential alumni. I find the list fascinating: 1. James Madison 17712. Alan Turing *383. Woodrow Wilson 1879 4. John Rawls ’43 *505. John Bardeen *366. George Kennan ’257. Benjamin Rush 17608. F. Scott Fitzgerland ’179. George Shultz ’4210. John Foster Dulles 190811. Gary [...]
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. – Marian Wright-Edelman Today’s one of those days where big differences seem out of my reach, so am trying [...]
Three years old today! Three years ago, in the middle of the night, after a short and smooth labor that I experienced almost entirely alone (which was magical), Samuel Whitman Russell arrived. His 7 lbs 9 oz arrival (one week early) quickly refuted all of the late-pregnancy medical angst the midwives had visited on me [...]
