Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Italian Television

Jessica and Alex were interviewed by Italian TV about Ratatouille last year:



How we do love YouTube.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

More Wedding Pictures: the Reception

The reception was a blast.

Jacob gave an unbelievably great toast,



And Alex gave one that made me mad, but entertained everyone else (he told a bunch of cautionary tales on Ellie.)



There was a bluegrass band, and dancing, dancing, dancing - especially Katy and Dorothy, who monopolized Kara.



Everybody danced!



they had petit fours instead of wedding cake, made by Jacob and his posse.



More group shots:

Wedding gentlemen:


photo JGMcM

Wedding Ladies:



The Fenton-Harvill family:



The lasko-Harvill-Fenton family:



The newlyweds with the Economics Department:



Matt and the girls:



Betty and me;



Amy and Dan:



ARg - there is so much more - next time..

Thursday, July 3, 2008

American Joe at the Marsh

A while ago I wrote about Liza Raynal's one woman play, American Joe. Now it is coming back to the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco.



Check it out!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Happy birthday Susan



created at wordle - check it out!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Wedding Pix

I better get started with these wedding pictures or it will be too late:

The wedding was at Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia, the oldest surviving botanic garden in the US, which predates the revolutionary war.

First came the huppah carriers: Ethan, Peenesh, Nick and Owen,



Elyse, the grooms' sister,



Blue and flower girl Katy



Alex and Dorothy



the groom and his parents, Gail and Marc



and the bride and her parents (us).



Ellie's old friends and co-co-cos from YRUU, Jessica and Kristin lit a candle and gave stirring readings about the meaning of the ceremony.



Elyse read a beautiful poem. I need to ask her permission to reprint it here.



Ellie and Jacob welcomed everyone, and made their vows to one another - and let me tell you, they were terrific vows. Afterwards, many long married couples were saying, "yeah, they really know what they are signing up for!"



They exchanged rings,



Jacob's father, Marc, talked about the significance of breaking the glass in Judaism and his wishes for the new couple, and Jacob broke the glass, and then Marc told jacob to kiss the bride.





Ellie's oldest friend Ann presented the wedding contract that she had illuminated



Ellie and Jacob each signed it



and finally everyone there signed it, as witnesses and community, sealing the marriage.

It was a Quaker service so there was no Minister or Rabbi. Just a community of people who love Ellie and Jacob, and as it turned out at the reception, really dig each other as well.

As you can tell, there were no color themes - everyone wore what they wanted to. Young and I ended up matching when he changed his shirt at the last minute - and Marc's tie matched my jacket - who could have known?

Photos by Demian Harvill and Zena Harvill. Many more to follow.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

My Prius is no more...

Last thursday, Matthew and I were driving on 101 in Redwood City (I was driving) and some joker suddenly remembered he'd missed his exit or something, and wham!



Some people behind us stopped and called 911. An off duty cop stopped and directed traffic. Matt took care of rest - called Young, who arrived within minutes, called the high school and told them to send Jacob to Tammy's studio. He found my driver's license and insurance info and gave them to the cops, and told them what happened.

The paramedics took me to the hospital immobilized on a back board as a precaution, because my right arm was numb, so I never actually saw the car until Matt showed me the picture on his phone. I'm fine except for some aches, and my thumb is still numb.

After the countless times I've been in the emergency room with my kids, this was the first time I ever been there as a patient, and it made me much more sympathetic to Jacob. After a flurry of activity when I was first wheeled in, they realized I was okay, but the rules said they couldn't unbind me until my c-spine had been cleared by an attending. So I was parked in the hallway for 3 hours, while all kinds of interesting things went on around me that I could hear but not turn my head to see. I couldn't even play tetris on my cell phone, but Young was there and he was good company.

Matt went and picked up Jacob and brought him back to Stanford, and we all went to the Peninsula Creamery, where Jacob had a banana split to celebrate the last day of school.