The Pine Tree
dated 2008-06-09 | posted in columns | topic Health | permanent link
Bob Pine died two weeks ago. Alone. The coroner’s report stated that he died of “natural causes,” but the people who discovered him, apparently 4 or 5 days after he died, thought differently. They had been alerted by people in Bob’s building that he hadn’t been seen in several days, hadn’t answered his phone and hadn’t responded to emails from people who began to become concerned about him. One of them, his property agent who had b ...
Here and There
dated 2008-06-24 | posted in columns | topic General | permanent link
A noticeable pall fell over Cascais, and surely over the rest of Portugal, after the national team lost their quarter final match to Germany. When I watched on TV, I was reminded of Gulliver’s Travelers with the Lilliputians outsized by the Brobdingnags, and here were the smaller Portuguese up against the huge, charging Germans. ( Who am I to talk at less than 5 feet myself!) But everyone in our living room, even my German friend Jutta, agreed ...