Let’s take a break from politics and have another look at my beautiful family 
Aside from a brief excursion to the Independence Hall area over a year ago, we haven’t taken the time to see any of the local sights since we moved here. It’s so easy to get caught up in your daily routine that you can forget about the fun and interesting things you really should be doing! So a couple weeks ago we finally went out to Valley Forge for an afternoon. As you can see in the pictures, we had a nice time.
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With all my very earnest political posts recently, something that’s been missing from my site is some humor. I’ve taken off blogging the past few days to work on a, uh, biography page. Check it out. It was a nice opportunity to play around with stylesheets too.
My home page has had a link to that page for years (it’s the cryptic “Huh?” button), but until now it’s just had some placeholder stuff on it. There was only one thing worth preserving from the old page. It’s the image on your right, which is a piece of whiteboard art by my brother John.
Now that I’ve lived in Philadelphia for over a year, I can say it’s probably the most unpretentious city I’ve been in. This is exemplified by its signature food, the Philly Cheesesteak. But there’s been a rash of fancy restaurants opening up around town, so we now have the $100 Cheesesteak:
Served with a small bottle of champagne, Barclay Prime’s cheesesteak is made of sliced Kobe beef, melted Taleggio cheese, shaved truffles, sauteed foie gras, caramelized onions and heirloom shaved tomatoes on a homemade brioche roll brushed with truffle butter and squirted with homemade mustard.
Sunday night Kai and I returned from our whirlwind 3-day visit to Newport. This is the first time I’ve made a trip home that wasn’t at least a week long, so it was a bit hectic squeezing in time with everyone in my inexusably large family. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun
