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Sonnet a natural in el lay (July this year). In 2018 Sonnet did a Fellowship at the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA). During this time she li...

From NYC, Sonnet and I visit Gracie in Berkeley and drop down to Santa Monica to bop around LA including the UCLA Hammer Museum where we vis...

The blue dot is me I complete my second Big Swim on July 20 circumnavigating Manhattan beginning, and ending, at Pier A on the island's ...

Barney is a California native who I recently connected with in London while he toured Europe with his wife and family.  I met Barney in Maid...

Sonnet and I at Anthony's 50th birthday  at The Queen of Hoxton night club that offers several floors for disco dancing beneath the sky ...

My guy Mitch Mitch Hutchcraft - who I met in Croatia  - accepts Mission: Impossible, completing the world's longest triathlon, starting ...

Well we have ripped thru the summer and, following this week's "bank holiday Monday", a collective groan can be heard across t...

Madeleine celebrating with Katie in NYC Since the last posting : Madeleine started her first full-time job last week and post uni (where she...

Callum Hudson-Odoi When Eitan was in the thick of his football career, I wondered what it would have been like to see Wayne Rooney or David ...

Grace decides that it is time for a change, at 84, and asks: “what do you think about dying my hair purple?” I’m all-in on the idea and sugg...

Wonderhorse, Brixton Academy Brixton Academy has re-opened after two people killed dead in a crush to see Afrobeats artist Asake in December...

Photo from the El Paso News Eitan is working his socks off on the Gabe Vasquez re-election campaign in the 2nd District of New Mexico on the...

Me and my new homey I join Sonnet and Madeleine for the last two nights of their 11 day visit to Norway which criss-crosses the fjords, moun...

Below, the route I took from England to France. Across the top, from Dover to the separation zone, the tide was gentle and I was on a true c...

Dear all I am slowly posting the Channel notes, all 43 of them, into one place on my blog.  And here it is. Have a mighty summer. Jeff  

Other than feeling like a fire truck hit me, I am mostly thinking, wow - did that just happen ? and then: I am glad that I am not swimming t...

Thank you, everyone, for your love and support on the Channel "project." I have felt your presence during morning practices (which...

As it stands now, I will swim the English Channel on Sunday, July 28, early morning UK with the exact start-time TBD. I will update as the s...

I am still on the Berkeley High leader board with records for the 500 yard and 200 yard freestyle set in 1985.  There have been a few close ...

Below, senior year.  The flat-top from local barber Tony who got rich from customer stock tips and retired at 50. I was going to shave it al...