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So…last week was my birthday. It was “a big one”. I adore celebrating my birthday, and Jack humors me about it, although he feels that one should give that up around age 12. I was feeling a bit melancholy in the week before my birthday. I couldn’t figure out why. I really was not concerned… Continue reading Random

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Beautiful migrants

Jack and I were sitting in a (not-yet-ready-for-primetime) new roof-top terrace in Zamalek last evening, when we saw a bird that we’d never seen in Cairo before. Not my photo. From Wikipedia.com. When I got home, I had to look up what it was. It is an European Bee-eater. It uses the Nile Valley as… Continue reading Beautiful migrants