Category: fun
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The Art of the Qur’an Exhibit (Freer Sackler Museum)
For those of you looking for something to do over the holiday break in the Washington, DC area, I highly recommend The Art of Qur’an exhibit currently being shown at the Freer Sackler Museum. There are over 70 Qur’ans on display, most of them beautifully illuminated. Many are over a thousand years old. (The oldest…
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Best Buddies Miami 2016
We were in Miami this past weekend attending the Best Buddies gala. Best Buddies is a non-profit that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with friendships, jobs, and leadership development. The annual gala in Miami is always a fun event to attend—both in terms of helping a very worthy cause and because Miami has…
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Disneyworld and an 18th Birthday
In the category of “How to Make Me Feel Really Old” falls the 18th birthday of our daughter (I assume our son’s 18th birthday will fall into the category of “How to Make Me Feel Really Really Old.”) Our daughter elected to celebrate this momentous occasion of being able to sign legally binding contracts by…
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Halloween 2016
We have a Halloween family tradition of over 10 years of inviting ourselves over to a friend’s house who has considerably more trick-or-treaters than we do (given that have zero). The kids decided (very reluctantly) that they were too old to go trick-or-treating by themselves and contented themselves with giving large amounts of candy to…
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Sense and Sensibility (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Our daughter and I attended the Folger Shakespeare Library production of “Sense and Sensibility” last night. (Jim is, to put it in an understated way, not a devotee of Jane Austen, describing her works as nothing but “yakety yak”). Needless to say, he was not invited to come to the play. Adaptations of Jane Austen’s…
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Restaurant review: Chef Mavro (Honolulu)
Chef Mavro is one of our favorite restaurants in Honolulu. While some of our other favorites have gifted chefs who serve excellent food, Chef Mavro has both those requirements, and the dishes are always beautifully presented. We try and go twice on every trip and alternate between the 6 course menu and the 4 course…
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Water Gun Fight (aka Enjoying the Summer)
Our rising 9th grader (or, more accurately, our 14 year old son) decided that what was needed to make the summer more fun was a water gun fight with a bunch of friends. He cleared the date and time with us, issued invitations to his friends (by text, of course), and on the appointed day,…
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Spring Break in Costa Rica
Spring break planning was interesting this year. Our son had opted to go on a school-sponsored sea turtle conservation trip in Costa Rica the week before spring break officially started. After some discussion (and verification that a Four Seasons resort existed in the country), we decided to join him in Costa Rica and spend spring…
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Hamilton (the musical) and Per Se (the restaurant)
We were in New York this past weekend in order to see “Hamilton,” the musical that seems to have taken the entire country (okay, maybe just the East coast) by storm. The tickets and a backstage tour by Leslie Odom, Jr. (the actor who plays Aaron Burr) were a Christmas gift to the kids. (I…
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Deer Valley (and meeting Congressman John Lewis)
We have some very lovely friends who invited us for a second year to join them at Deer Valley for Presidents’ Day weekend. Neither Jim nor I ski (growing up in Kansas means you don’t have a lot of mountains nearby), but the kids enjoyed it last year when they tried it. We started off…