Do you love my header?

I do. I really do and want to keep it there forever. But I loved the last one, too! So what shall I do?! This is right down the road from my house, on Crestwood Boulevard (aka highway 78) in Birmingham.  Not a heavily Catholic area, you’ll be shocked to learn.  I don’t know anything [...]

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The Introvert

One of the more common searches (other than “why have children” and, weirdly, “imagini Bratz” – only Italian Bratz image searches come to my page, but they do, several times a week ) involves some variation on “introvert.” I think there is a post somewhere out there or two about being an introvert, explaining what [...]

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A (short) walk in Williamsburg

This is my last NYC-related post. I think. I had one last morning in New York City, a Friday morning.  My flight was at 3 or so, so I had time to do some walking and exploring, but nothing that required too much commitment. So one of the things I decided I wanted to do [...]

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Listen to your father

More than 18 months later,  we talk about Mike at some point or other every day.  It’s not belabored, I try to keep it loose, I just respond to where they are and what they say.  I try to keep it hopeful, and most of the time at this point, it’s happy things they remember [...]

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Crossing Delancey

As I mentioned, my NYC hotel was on the same block as the Tenement Museum. It’s a different sort of museum, located in a former tenement apartment building at 97 Orchard Street. (A new book – 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement – is one of several [...]

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Environmental Awareness

I had airport business in Atlanta late Monday evening, so I decided to use some points, get a free room and spend some time in the ATL on Tuesday, the last day of summer vacation. We hit the Georgia Aquarium first. My favorites, because they’re really big. I also like the garden eels, sticking straight [...]

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The Frick

One of the things I wanted to be sure to do during this trip was to see the Frick Collection -  since I would be sans children for those three days and the Frick doesn’t admit children under ten, it was the right (and perhaps only – for what…five more years?) time. Accompanied by my [...]

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And then I bought pickles

Best pickles I’ve ever had. A just a couple of blocks west: As I said in a previous post, I was won over by the Lower East Side. I stayed in the Blue Moon Hotel on Orchard Street, right across from the Tenement Museum (more on that later) – a small hotel which was charming, [...]

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“Good Shabbos”

Two Friday mornings ago, I went into this bakery on Grand Street on the Lower East Side.  The short, squat woman behind the counter, her hair covered in a wrap ,was in her late sixties. She asked me what I would like the minute I walked in the door, even as she was still exchanging [...]

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Christmas in July

Chelsea gallery-hopping. The exhibit was called Christmas in July and you can’t get the full effect of this element because it’s not a movie.  The tree spun around at a fairly impressive rate of speed, ornaments hurling off its branches and shattering all about. My friend and I immediately agreed that this is actually an [...]

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