Wednesday, the eve of New Year’s Day, was in Chinatown and it was bustling! People buying special cakes and fish and fruits and flowers. The sun was bright, though the air was chill and the wind gusted now and then. But the sunshine added such a festive note to the goings-on. And it seemed indeed …
Category Archives: Family
Tipping the Doorman
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/a2535/the-truth-about-what-you-should-tip-your-doorman-this-holiday-season/ Should you have nothing better to do, and you are wondering what it’s like to be a wealthy City dweller, then this is the article for you over a cup-of-coffee.
An Affair
Just saw ‘Poor Behavior” a new play by Theresa Rebeck. Wish more of you could see it, because it asks a really important question at the end. The plot is 2 couples who know each other for a long time, and they spend a weekend at couple A’s weekend house in the country! If …
Talenti
I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you about the best thing in the grocery store freeze section: Talenti Gelato. Happened upon it, wasn’t looking for it, but once you taste ‘Sea Salt Carmel’ life is changed. Each home I visited this summer, bought it for the host and the madness in that method …
New York?
Does this residence fit anyone’s idea of what the City looks like? This is on one of my favorite streets in the West Village.
The Perks
of offering to help someone standing on the corner with a guide book. They were three, a father, mother and son. The book was in French. The sun was out and I was on my way to a destination, but they looked lost. So I stopped and asked if they needed help. They wanted to …
Life Lessons- cont…
The Sister Who Laughed the Hardest. Older, single women have always to be on guard and savvy so as not to be taken in by scams. People who should know better have fallen prey and into the scammers clutches. Younger Sister [YS] was upstairs in the house, when she heard the land line telephone ring. …
Wrong Mom
Returned to NYC only 24 hours and was out and about. Passed a woman with an eight year old daughter, and on a leash, a lab dog. Dog was demanding more from the mother than the child. Mother and I shared the same hair color and black clothes. As I passed the trio on the …
Blow My Mind!
Pasted to the rear window of a van, at a high school basket ball game. Wondering what her kids are learning about responsible living. Wonder if she is the mother of a secular school child or the christian school attendees.
The Box
February 14th I wrote about Ann from the U of O and Gamma Phi Beta time [just a while back] gifting me a freesia plant in a box of antiquity that I had given her in the good ole days. So the question is, what to do with the box as I leave Portland. I …