Author: brucewinter

Sir Nick, Thanks for the email update! Many happies that your trip is going well and that you have found friends and something good to eat in lieu of your terrorist toothpaste that is now feeding the airport gnomes. Just read up a bit on Chongqing. Apparently a bit hilly, so is the only big…

Hi all, Please excuse me for writing again so quickly (looks like 9 days ago,less than my 2-3 week average). We just got our 1st email from Nickconfirming that he made it to China ok and is doing well, so wanted topass it along. Helen and I made a quick trip to New Hampshire last…

Merryies and happy new thingies to one and all, 40 and dry here. We DID have some snow for a week or 2. Gave us achance to try out Helen’s x-country skies, as is evidenced by the overexcited skier in the 1st photo. Helen’s son Noah (a Junior at CMU music school in Pittsburgh) anddaughter…

One more photo (Zach admiring Jessy’s new dew that she got on her birthday a few days ago) and a letter from Nick! ———— Hi yo, So I’m going to China this January. That is going to be totally unrealright up until the moment I eat some dumplings, I think. Having neversignificantly traveled alone before,…

Greets from the land of Geeks, Heard from Nick today. He is finalizing his winter break China trip plans in January. After a week here at xmas, he will travel to Beijing, then to Chengdu in the Sichuan province. Chengdu is China’s 5th biggest city, with only 10 million people. Still a bit too many…

Forwarding a letter from Nickmaster. As a post-halloween treat, am attaching a picture of a brain that Helenand I made. A milk gelatin desert, with a bit too much gelitan, so wasa pretty solid brain. But it sure looked the part, as might be expectedwhen a neurologist builds a brain treat. It scared off food…