After I saw “ALLEGIANCE”, a moving musical about 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during World War II by our own governmemt here in the States…. I had the privilege to talk about George Takei’s musical with Director John Gray of The National Museum of American History. I wanted to connect the dots — so I…
.. to earn enough to send for his lady to come to the United States. A tale that needed to be told… fron the 1850’s to the 20th century. Preserved how? By a 21-page story typed on a Remington portable. The point: “It’s worth taking the time and effort to record oral histories while relatives…
Sometimes my best exercise is running outside from my office to post another letter in my mailbox. I like to do it one at a time. My own sad little form of cardio. We had to order a bigger one to accommodate my productivity. I had oral surgery yesterday afternoon — not very painful, thanks…
http://innergardens.com/.. Maybe it’s because I work out of the house — and so am a bit of a confined prisoner — or maybe because I hate dead plants — I got back from being on the road and noticed this half-gone ficus in the dining room … and decided enough was enough. I called Inner…
https://lasportsandspine.wordpress.com/ Dr. Craig Liebenson is a world-famous sports doctor who teaches people how to get better and change their physicality after an injury. I had a note that his birthday is coming up this week — old-school, in my ‘birthday calendar book’, not Facebook — and so decided to send him a card. Even though…
Vin loves clothes. He’s got pictures of them in books to keep himself organized of what pocket square goes with what tie goes with what jacket. When he gets to New York, he has one master designer — Mr. Antonio Tincati — whose bright, vibrant clothes he especially appreciates. Maybe it’s an Italian thing. Some…
Director John Gray of the Smithsonian’s American History Museum had a special treat for me. He showed me the ‘OFFICE” display on the Innovations floor — in Washington, D.C. — and of course I had to have a picture. Don’t mind my wild suit. As I look at the tame gray ‘power suit’ behind me,…
I can always count on CHRISTINA HARTLEY, who’s Director of Alumni Relations at Rhode Island School of Design, to come up with a great card. This postcard — with its precious birds on front — caught my eye when it spilled out of my mailbox today. We had dinner after Adam Silverman’s lecture on his…
Provost Pradeep Sharma; Chairman of the Board Michael Spalter; Me; RISD Museum Director John W. Smith; President Rosanne Somerson; Trustee Amita Chatterjee; Trustee Jon Kamen; Trustee Nicole Miller; Trustee Bob Glass; Trustee Susan Dryfoos. I flew to New York for the Cooper Hewitt’s own version of the Academy Awards — National Design Awards. I came…
I hadn’t heard from my friend Doris Nemtzow in a while — we’d met in Newport, Rhode Island several years ago. My mother-in-law Jean had invited me to join her at a ladies’ luncheon for the Newport Preservation Society and it was a ‘hats only’ affair. Jean lent me a hat, and we went off…
