Month: April 2017
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Restaurant review: Dolan Uyghur
Uyghur (pronounced wee-gur) cuisine comes from one of the ethnic minorities mostly located in Xinjiang, China. We have been to a Uyghur restaurant in Beijing many years ago and were thrilled to learn that there was now a Uyghur restaurant in Washington, DC. Off we went to try it with some friends who had made…
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Kusama Exhibit
I interrupt my regularly scheduled program (of mostly trips, food, and books) to talk about the Kusama exhibit we saw at the Hirshhorn Museum earlier this week as part of the US-Japan Leadership Program. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer whose exhibit, Infinity Mirrors, is currently at the Hirshhorn. It is impossible to…
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Book review: A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh
A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am a huge fan of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers, and I was cautiously optimistic when I discovered that there were additional mysteries written by Jill Paton Walsh based loosely on notes written by Dorothy Sayers. There…
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Spring Break 2017 (aka Being Stalked by Adam Sandler)
The high school senior got to choose where we went for spring break this year, and after some discussion, she decided on Honolulu, so off we went. (Twist our arms!) There was the lovely view from our hotel room: There were the usual fabulously beautiful sunsets, and delicious meals (at The Pig and the Lady,…