There is also the matter of my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary next summer.  My small extended family of origin is beginning to plan a multi-generational vacation…

OK so maybe that teeny tiny cup of espresso was a mistake after all.

Julie Powell played by Amy Adams in the movie “Julie and Julia” said she thought she had ADD and that’s why she couldn’t do housework.  Just sayin…

It’s nearly 2:00 am and I am wide awake.  My head is still full of Julia Child and Ted Kennedy’s sisters and the neighbor friends we had dinner with tonight and I am worried that I won’t get up early enough to clean the front room and gather together a good assortment of costume pieces [...]

We saw the movie hours ago this afternoon but we are still talking about it.  We’re googling Julia Child and an actor friend from our Annex days– Julia Prudhomme (we never knew she was related to Julia Child! ).  We have less than six degrees of separation from this movie in several directions:  Julie Powell [...]

 While I was listening to all the news coverage of the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, I began idly googling the Kennedy family and was drawn to the women, especially Rosemary Kennedy. She was different, troubled, but most likely not retarded as has been printed repeatedly.  Some reports speculated that she probably had an average [...]

      ”Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.  She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.  She is a veil, rather than a mirror.  She has flowers that no forests know of, birds that no woodland possesses.  She makes and unmakes many worlds and can draw [...]

This morning after an appointment in Brooklyn Heights, My Kid and I ran into some neighbors who had just been to the dentist.  They were on their way to Greenwich Village to see Click Clack Moo at the Lucille Lortel theater on Christopher Street.  Since it was free with tickets distributed an hour before curtain, we went [...]

There’s this thing that is done in Montana.  Floating on a river in a rubber raft.  It’s fun.  It’s done with friends.  It’s relaxing.  It’s making me really sad that we are going back to New York tomorrow.  Missoula “A River Runs Through It” Montana really is a beautiful place!  I will miss it.

I stopped by the registrar’s office on campus today and orderd copies of my transcripts.  I intend to apply to be a substitute teacher for the New York City public schools.  My Kid is dubious.