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July 2016

July 13, 2016
Next stop:  Augsburg.  Given that this is my husband’s hometown, this part of the visit...
July 10, 2016
Does your parish have a "parish nurse"?  If so, here's a quick request:  could you...
July 10, 2016
Onward to Germany! Our first stop was Winningen, a small town on the Moselle River...

June 2016

June 30, 2016
Now we’re in the Netherlands.  (Again, pics and links to come.) It’s a funky country...
June 30, 2016
So as it turns out, the internet connection in London was already very slow for...
June 24, 2016
Well, not much, to be honest, by which I mean this: the agenda for the...
June 24, 2016
So you all in the U.S. went to bed knowing the result of the Brexit...
June 23, 2016
Let me start by saying that my starting point as far as finances is to...
June 23, 2016
Still planning on uploading more pictures from our sightseeing so far, but here's a quick...
June 18, 2016
We're there!  And here's a bit of a travel journal for both family/friends and blog...
June 15, 2016
The two emerging narratives coming across my facebook and twitter feeds could not be more...
June 13, 2016
The first installment in the Jane the Actuary "10 and change" project:  Let's talk about...
June 13, 2016
So here's the deal:  I spent all of Saturday travelling; Sunday noontime (UK time) we...
June 10, 2016
Yeah, I told you about the "100 and change" project sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation....
June 09, 2016
In case you've been living under a rock, a 20-year old man was sentenced to...
June 07, 2016
You know, it's clear that the press is not the objective reporters of fact we...
June 07, 2016
Or, more precisely, should the US Census Bureau's racial categories include as a "race" the...
June 06, 2016
Yeah, I know, not really any of my business whether Muslims believe that their religion...
June 05, 2016
So I checked my twitter feed this morning and saw a link to an article...
June 04, 2016
Oh, man.  I am so going to do this. All I need to do is...
June 03, 2016
From the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries:  the Longevity Illustrator.  It's...
June 03, 2016
It's baa-aack -- the dream that we have a way of fixing poor kids right...
June 02, 2016
Or, "no, please don't fling us into that briar patch!" I had observed the other...
June 01, 2016
You remember MAD, right?  (I put the periods in the title so that it's clearer...
June 01, 2016
So the Chicago Tribune reported on a new report on affordable housing the other day,...

May 2016

May 30, 2016
Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched. In...
May 29, 2016
On Friday, May 27, President Obama, in Japan for the G-7 summit, made a trip...
May 26, 2016
Transsexual -- what an archaic term!  How quickly we've moved from the notion that a...
May 23, 2016
What happens when the meaning of an artwork is forgotten, then half-rediscovered? In Elgin, in...
May 22, 2016
This is either a humorous little nothing story, or points to a real problem. As reported...
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