Misfortune Cookies

Monday’s team meeting came with catered chinese lunch.  Late in the afternoon, I took the bag of fortune cookies up to reception and put them in the empty candy basket.  I took one yesterday and one today. Yesterday’s cookie fortune: Your day will be...

In the Queue

Just finished: Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie in which the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress loosens up and tells a shagy dog story of a befuddled Freudian in search of a virgin in semi-post-communist China. Just started, for book club:...

Autumn Leaves Yet to Fall

Spent an excellent day at the excellent DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park with excellent friends. I arrived early, at least in part due to the end of daylight saving time, and I wandered the grounds, taking photos of the fall foliage, mostly looking straight up...