Julia's Choice

Goucher College.

Celebrating 70

Frontrunner

Julia with her mother, Connie, and her Aunt Carole on a visit to Goucher College in Baltimore last week. Goucher is currently her favorite among the universities that have admitted her. It also offered a relatively attractive financial aid package, which is important.

Over the next few weeks, we'll see what other offers transpire, but for now Goucher is #1.

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Happy 21st, Dylan!

Travelers

My grandchildren on their way to Sanibel Island the other day. They are gathering for a family reunion on their maternal grandmother's side.

I have so many wonderful memories of Sanibel, though I have not been there in many years. I know they will enjoy finding shells on the beach, seeing the birds in Ding Darling, and experiencing the tropical weather!

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Plum Blossoms

These photos are from around the corner from my house. we've had so much rain (and sun) this winter, that the fruit trees and grasses are flourishing.

We had our fantasy baseball draft last night and unfortunately I did not do very well. This year for the first time I did not buy a fantasy baseball magazine to help inform me on my choices. Instead I just relied on whatever information was online.

So it looks like for this season I will have at best a middle of the league team.

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Happy (Early) Birthday Party, Dylan!

No photos this time but last night we celebrated Dylan's upcoming 21st birthday. A bunch of us gathered last night for a very nice dinner party at Bernal Heights.

Dylan, as always, is a charming, self-deprecating host, quite the life of the party. His big news is that he has been accepted by U-C Santa Cruz starting this fall.

His younger sister, Julia, has grown up into a lovely and articulate woman, gracefully answering the constant questions everyone asks her about colleges. (She's been accepted by four to date.)

Peter and Claire talked about their jobs at Yelp and Google.

Noting that David Rockefeller died earlier this week, at age 101, I told the story from many years ago when I met him in his townhouse in the upper east side of Manhattan. He poured me a martini that he had mixed himself and we exchanged polite conversation.

Then I asked him about reports that his long-time friend, Henry Kissinger, had been indicted as a war criminal by the world court in Italy for his part in conductiing the terrible bombings of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the Nixon administration.

"Hah," said Rockefeller. "Henry certainly is a war criminal!"

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