May's Mutterings

Month: February 2014

  • Book review: The Time of Murder at Mayerling by Ann Dukthas

    The Time of Murder at Mayerling by Ann Dukthas My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The Time of Murder at Mayerling” by Ann Dukthas (a pseudonym of Paul Doherty) is a continuation of a historical mystery series starring Nicholas Segalla, a man who never dies and is also present at pivotal historical events. Segalla solves…

  • Institute for Justice dinner

    Jim is on the board of the Institute for Justice, and we had the board and almost everyone in the organization (approximately 44 people) over for dinner last night.  Robert, Jim’s nephew, came out and helped cook.  Without him, we would never have been able to pull this dinner off. The menu was as follows…

  • Minibar, Take 2

    We went to minibar by Jose Andres last night (the 9:00 pm seating).  As an aside, we are way too old for a weekday 9:00 pm seating as the dinner lasted past midnight, and we didn’t get home until after 1:00 am (the horror!).  But I digress. We had gone to minibar in September, and…

  • Winter Holiday Concert

    Here is Weiwei’s handchime choir performance at the school’s winter holiday concert.  (Which, of course, begs the question of what winter holiday you are celebrating on January 16, 2014.)