Great streaming coverage of US Open matches at the US Open website.  No commercials.  Choice of courts.  Two courts at a time.  http://www.usopen.org/index.html

Too good to be true . . .

Very cool.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/fields-medal-mirzakhani-081214.html

Stanford’s Maryam Mirzakhani wins Fields Medal

Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics” – in recognition of her contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces.

By Bjorn Carey

Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has been awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics. Mirzakhani is the first woman to win the prize, widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics,” since it was established in 1936.

Robert and the kids went on a 3+mile backpacking trip in the Sierras last weekend.  We camped out at Chickenfoot Lake in the Little Lakes Basin.  Sydney (age 7) and Wyatt (age 4) and the rest of the Landis family joined us. The kids rose to the challenge.  We sure are proud of them, including Rory, Sydney, and Wyatt, who carried their own packs.

Mira, who twisted her ankle on the tennis court earlier in the week, did not hike and instead waited for us at the nearby Rock Creek Lodge, which, conveniently enough, arranges spa treatments.

Each year, after returning from our annual hiking trip, the Pierce family, at mother’s request, typically starts to review glamping websites. To no avail . . .

http://glamping.com/

We made it to the hot springs and washed off 2 days of trail grit. Ahhhh . . .

A California man has reportedly wasted $30,000 at a local Waldorf school.

This is an ink on paper drawing by the remarkably prolific early 21st century artist Caedryn Pierce. Made in her home in Northern California, this drawing is titled Strawberry Honeybun Explosion.  In 2014, the artist explained the drawing as “falling strawberry jam-filled honeybuns that make a sticky strawberry explosion as they hit the ground.”

Robert has added new old Pierce photos on the Pierce Family Website.

https://family.piercespace.com/photos/old-pierce-photos/