November 6, 1967

by | Nov 6, 2007 | Uncategorized

November 6, 1967 was to become an important date in my life. Of course, I didn’t know it then, three years from being born. On that day, somewhere in Lakemba, in Sydney, Australia, I believe, a 25-year-old beauty named Helen Levine, smart with long, almost-black...
Re-entry blues

Re-entry blues

by | Oct 25, 2007 | Uncategorized

The last couple of days have been crazy. Intense and sad and scary.We were exhausted when Doug’s lovely sister picked us up at the airport: we hadn’t slept much in the last 48 hours. And we were beginning to show the signs of some food poisoning or...

Date with my honey

by | Sep 27, 2007 | Uncategorized

For all the folks asking if things have changed since the ceremony: Doug and I went kite flying this evening in Mountain View as the sun set and then went to Zucca for scotch (15-year-old Dalwhinnie, neat, him) and a cocktail they call Oh, Beautiful (Remy cognac,...