29 Friday Aug 2014
I have a few September Washington Nationals tickets available, all at no cost to you, other than perhaps buying me some peanuts at the game (if it is a game we are seeing together):
The available dates:
28 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures
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14th Annual LIbrary of Congress National Book Festival, National Book Festival, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington Convention Center
…and if you are in or near Washington, DC this Labor Day weekend, you’re in for a treat.
The National Book Festival will take place this Saturday, August 30th, from 10 am – 10 pm, though doors open at 9 am.
And it’s all free.
Since it first began in 2001, it has been held on the Mall, but this year it has moved indoors to the Washington Convention Center.
The list of activities is impressive and includes more than 100 authors, book signings, lectures, panel discussions, activities for children, and the opportunity to meet some of your favorite writers.
27 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures
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"A Most Wanted Man", "Abuse of Weakness", "Frank", "Get on Up", Catherine Breillat, Chadwick Boseman, Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Maud Schoenberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman
I enjoy movies as readers of MillersTime no doubt know. Of late, however, there haven’t seem to be too many ones to recommend for your consideration.
Here are three, however, that on various levels I found enjoyable:
26 Tuesday Aug 2014
Posted in Articles & Books of Interest
A friend sent me the article linked to below.
Since many of you who ‘read’ MillersTime are (have been) teachers or have worked in education and many more of you are involved with schools in one way or another, I thought I’d pass along this wonderful example of what one individual is doing in her classroom.
It should only take you a few minutes to read.
Feel free to pass it on to others.
One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Bullying, by Glennon Doyle Melton.
23 Saturday Aug 2014
Posted in The Outer Loop
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"A More Perfect Union", Ferguson, Hilary Clinton, Polarization, President Obama, Race in America
My daughter asked me last weekend, “Don’t you think {President} Obama should go to Ferguson?”
I immediately said, “No. I don’t think he should.” And I talked briefly about the issue of local and state control. Although there was increasing tension and violence (on both sides), I didn’t believe it was the President’s role to go to the scene of the turmoil in that city.
But I also felt that Pres. Obama could not go, even if he wanted to.
For a variety of reasons, he has become a polarizing figure in our country. (See Why Obama Won’t Give the Ferguson Speech His Supporters Want).
20 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted in Escapes and Pleasures, Family and Friends
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"Abuse of Weakness", "Beautiful", "Frank", "Kinky Boots", "Once", Broadway Theater, Central Park, Family & Friends, Garry Winograd, Lincoln Center Films, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Pace Gallery, Peter Luger's, The Astor Court
It was Ellen’s idea.
“Let’s plan a trip in August to NYC,” she said. “It’ll be similar to our one-week-a-year trips to a foreign city.”
I was skeptical: “NYC in August?”
But then I”m a married man, and so we headed to NYC last Friday, returning home today, five nights, six days later.
03 Sunday Aug 2014
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Thank you to friend and MillersTime reader Elliott Trommald for his Comment (which I only just saw this morning) on my post on the film Life Itself. He wrote:
01 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Go Sox
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Andrew MIller, baseball, Ben Cherington, Bill Beane, Boston Red Sox, John Lackey, John Lester, Red Sox, Sox, Yoenis Cespedis
Twenty-four hours ago I asked my wife Ellen to lock up all the sharp knives and put a barrier across the stairs to the third floor.
It was clear to me that the Sox were about to explode, that GM Ben Cherington was about to cast off, minimally, our two top pitchers and one of our top relievers.
For what? A bunch of prospects?
My well being was threatened, and I needed protection from acting impulsively.
This morning I told Ellen she could unlock the knives and take down the barrier to the third floor.
For the moment at least, things didn’t seem so dire.