Indian Summer

We're having an Indian Summer in New York City. Starting on Sunday, October 30th a nice "heat wave" came in. 60's during the day and low 50's at night. Beautiful sun, clear skies. The weeks before when Chris Bennage and Helen Bosanquet were with us it was cold, dreary and rainy. What a difference.

Sharon's parents were with us last weekend after a little vacation in Greece. Randy and I strolled through Greenwich Village on Sunday getting offered pot by all the local dealers in Washington Square. (What do we look like?!) The Buths are in the States for two months. We'll see them again around Thanksgiving. On Halloween, Sharon threw a "Purim party" for her Esther class with all the members dressing up as characters out of "Esther". It was fun to see her students (and us too) outside of the classroom environment.

We just had Anne Stanfield (Scottish-African friend from Israel) spend the night with us. She came to our Hebrew class at Nyack last night. Monday night we heard Lawrence Schiffman, an expert in Second Temple period and Dead Sea Scrolls, lecture on "Inverting Reality: The Da Vinci Code's Counter History". It was an excellent spanking of "The Da Vinci Code". Anne joined us as well.

This weekend we have Danny, Eva, and Julie Kopp coming for the weekend.

Classes are going well for me. I am stressed with two weeks left to write a paper for the Society of Biblical Literature's annual conference in Philadelphia.

For fun, Sharon and I are finishing up the new Harry Potter novel, The Half-Blood Prince (thank you Christopher Bennage).

Good bye October 2005 in New York City. Hard to believe we've only been in NYC just over two months.