Miracle baby came to meet me and my colleagues and we ended up at the Brasserie thanks to someone’s tip that restaurants around New York City were having a special prix fix menu. All of the ramped up energy I had from not sleeping caught up with me by the end of the meal though and I felt like crawling home to my hotel. But my niece and I rallied for one more drink if…
We walked around Union Square today to take our meeting outdoors. It was snowing heavily but had just lightened up to a nice snow – a mild snow – and it was actually quite beautiful as we walked through Union Square passed the Ghandi statue and over to the Di Fiore Marquet Cafe, which looked like it could have been in New Orleans or France. Last night I went to bed with too much on…
I’ve been looking forward to seeing my niece while here in New York now that she has moved to the big apple – youth, I have a touch of envy and yet couldn’t imagine moving to New York at this point in my life. But the best thing is to looking forward to meeting someone who honestly appreciates you and you them. January 25, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) You can come out now. It’s safe. This means…
I usually stay at a Kimpton Hotel, or at least I have been for the last decade when I travel to the east and west coast, but then I recently changed to the Bowery Hotel in NY and it was nice discovering a new area and it made it seems as if all those years midtown near Times Square had kept me from really exploring the real side of New York. This time we were…
They say that if you are always preparing for the worse, you spend a lot of time stressing about what might not happen. And I must say I was prepared for New York to be colder than cold and actually it is cold. Like in if it is in the teens here it is probably equal to 40 degrees in humid New Orleans. So while I came packing like a Russian peasant (all the clothes…
In this short and simple Aesop’s fable, a scorpion, who couldn’t swim, asked a frog to carry him across the river on her back. The frog hesitated, saying, “I’m afraid you will attack me.” But the scorpion pointed out that it wouldn’t be in his interest to do that, because, if the frog died in the water, he would drown. So she consented. As they were half way across the water, the scorpion suddenly whipped…
Tonight President Obama addresses the nation and let’s hope tops on his list is a serious proposal to address gun control. The thought that a mentally deranged person who got kicked out of a community college (of all places) because he was unstable was able to buy not just a gun, but a semi automatic gun that could hold a clip carrying 32 bullets it pure and utter nonsense. Absurd. Goes down in the ranks…
I don’t have the type of clothes that New Yorkers wear so I’m taking just about everything I can put in the suitcase. Sigh. Big Frozen Apple here I come. I got an email from New York saying “get ready for COLD” – cold? I’m cold here at 50 degrees.
Jack LaLanne died at 96 years of age yesterday – I grew up watching my mom exercise to his morning program. Rest in peace Jack. He said about exercise: “It’s a lifestyle, it’s something you do the rest of your life,” LaLanne said. “How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.”
There were a lot of things we could have done today such as go see the production of Goodnight Moon at the Jefferson Theater in Westwego, but instead we chose to walk to the park and play on the swings, catch a football game in the big lawn, eat a banana nut muffin in the cafe and then go to the sculpture garden that I forget is free – for godsakes – and it was…