Murray Ceff's Blog

We left London early on a Wednesday morning from Heathrow Airport. It was an interesting drive to the  airport with an Iraqi taxi driver. I think I learnt more about Iraq in that drive than I had ever learned before. One thing I learned was that most Islamic terrorists are Sunni and not Shiite. Anyway, we got to the airport safely which is the main thing, I guess!  Our flight from London to Frankfurt was delayed for some unknown reason. This was going to cause a problem! We had a short flight to Frankfurt where we were to change planes to then fly to Tokyo. It was a short flight to Frankfurt but the distance from where our plane came in (not to a terminal but to a waiting bus on the tarmac) to where our connecting flight was leaving from was far from short! From where the bus dropped us off we had a long long walk and it seemed like not enough time to get to our connecting flight.  Poor Josie! She was really struggling to walk fast enough! Miriam and I went ahead while Margot he

Not my work - I was sent this in an email recently and thought it was worth keeping and sharing. Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romey            1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.            2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.             3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)             4. Can't speak in a fake, southern, "black preacher voice" when necessary.             5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School ... and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.             6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today's America ?              7. Represents an America of