Nebraska

May 9, 2008

Here is the farm where my client Bill spent summers as a boy. It’s up the fields from the original homestead. The barns and many other buildings blew down in a tornado 15 years ago.Bill is writing a history of the homestead. Bill revisits the chicken house, where he fetched eggs every morning. It was […]

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Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting: What a Scene

May 5, 2008

Greetings from the Midwest. During the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, the Qwest Convention Center in Omaha, Nebraska morphs into a fabulous display center for Berkshire companies. I wanted to get on the long-horn steer but they told me I was too old and, well, too big. This little girl came all the way to the […]

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Time to Think

April 19, 2008

The May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine carries an article by Frank Bures called, “Way, Way Too Much Information,” about the overload we’re all processing and about how he was inspired by an essay called “Thinking about Earthworms,” by David Quammen. Published in the early 1990s, the essay encouraged readers to dwell with their […]

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Coming into Bloom

March 23, 2008

I love working with writers, obviously. And right now I’m excited; as the season shifts and the ruminating deep underground work has taken root, buds are bursting into bloom. Everybody has been working really hard and beginning to reap the rewards. Three writers I’ve been working with have books coming out, five writers are appearing […]

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Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East

February 5, 2008

This is an artist’s book by an artist now living in Paris. Many Iraqi artists started working with artist books when it was no longer safe to go to their studios. They also wanted to be able to transport their work easily. We all remember the pillaging of the museums and libraries after the US […]

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The Secret Garden

February 3, 2008

Most spaces between the apartment buildings look like this. The secret garden. Palm fronds and grape vines shade the arugula growing underneath. I have fallen in love with my compound. At first I was disappointed. Some of the people I know here in Doha live in more established walled-in worlds, with palm tress and lush […]

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A Space All My Own

January 25, 2008

The living/dining room. It’s huge though you can’t really tell here. I sit in that black chair and work at a small computer table behind it. The dining room table offers plenty of space for research materials.I call this my yoga hall. When I lie on the rug and stretch my arms all the way […]

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In Dubai

January 19, 2008

Jumeirah Park.Indoor skiing at the mallThe tallest hotel in the worldOld fashioned dhows (boats) used to transport goods.Men going to work.This place is growing soooo fast. They’re creating islands in the sand to house 300 skyscrapers. Here are a few of the creek that divides Dubai. The boats are still used for export–out to the […]

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More photos

January 14, 2008

Mural.Indoor mallIndoor mall

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Photos From the Car

January 12, 2008

This is half a billboard; the other side shows the Lincoln Memorial with Abe lying back, his head resting on a pillow. It’s an ad for Qatar Airways, which I enjoy flying. Give me a plane over a car–any day. In Doha, plan to spend a lot of time in cars.I don’t know what this […]

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