Monthly Archives: February 2013

(Community Matters) So far, 46,098 kids have sold $1,066,331 worth of lemonade and donated $529,665 to charity thru EF’s Lemonade Day Austin. We’re looking forward to an additional 40,000 on May 5, 2013.

#GrowingFutureEntrepreneurs

(Community Matters) I wish this were available for all descendants of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain. I’d love dual citizenship, assuming I can further document. NYTimes

(Community Matters) Were I part of this base – or a rising Cruz, though maybe okay with Rubio – this certainly wouldn’t please me.

Republicans and Fox News are moving to purge the controversial political creatures they created. Both were damaged badly in 2012 by loud, partisan voices that stoked the base – but that scared the hell out of many voters . . . there is a deliberate effort by party leaders to ‘marginalize the cranks, haters and bigots – there’s a lot of underbrush that has to be cleaned out.’ … So a political colonoscopy is going on before our eyes. Politico

(Community Matters) Steven arranged a great birthday weekend in NY. Dinner at ESCA and Manhattan Theatre Company’s The Other Place with our friends Suzanne Tick, Agapi Stassinopoulos and Alan Weiser. Lunch with our godson Luke Hayes. And, we were to tour MOMA with our goddaughter Lauren Mayes and have dinner with Rob Oppegard at Fonda, but, alas  today’s plans derailed.

Looking forward to the week at home, celebrating quietly with a few friends over the next couple of days. Then, celebrating Mardi Gras German style in Fredericksburg