I am just about ready for a lazy day. You know – the kind of day that has no errands, no work and no plan. No cleaning, no laundry, no chauffeuring, no supermarkets, no gym. My "no" list could go on and on.

I have been watching the dramatization of the O.J. Simpson trial on television. And, while most of the details of the trial I remember, it is the sub stories of the parties involved that I find most interesting. In particular, the story I now find most poignant is that of Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor.  

Saturdays – at least the mornings – are one of my hoops day; that's basketball for those who need more clarity. I enjoy it; it's intergenerational (even more so in the summer but that'll merit its own blog...maybe).  

You might want to crack open that dusty box of vidoes and see if you have any that you forgot to bring back to the store. A North Carolina man was arrested this week on charges he failed to return a VHS tape to a video store 14 years ago. 14 years! It wasn't even a really good movie..."Freddy Got Fingered."  

Last Saturday we were booked with American Airlines to fly home from vacation.   Between the time of the original booking and the flight American changed the flight times, narrowing our connecting flight buffer to 51 minutes.  I was up half the night before worrying about the potential for missing the connection, but in my wildest anxiety I could never have conjured up the torturous gauntlet American presented to us. 

The refugee crisis is on everyone’s mind. Discussed. Debated. The topic brings out the best, and the worst. Recently, Flo and I were at the Public Theatre on Lafayette Street. There’s a plaque on the building: “This plaque is dedicated to HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which occupied this building from 1921 to 1965.

From the Huffington Post: See Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emma Watson freestyle about gender equality.

  Last spring my daughter spent a week in Israel to start her international traveling. Last summer she spent a month in India working with an eye care foundation. In the winter she went back to Israel to study.