1-1-11

Happy New Year!! Like last year, we did our traditional dinner New Year’s Eve dinner at Melting Pot and then headed to First Night for some activities and fireworks before watching the ball drop in Times Square from the comfort of our living room. I can’t believe Dick Clark is still hanging in there! After …

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WIJFR: Anathem

On the far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, scientists, philosophers and mathematicians—a religious order unto themselves—have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now …

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