The idea of paying the check of another diner, a stranger(s) in a restaurant, a few weeks before Christmas is a wonderful way of getting into the Christmas Spirit. I can’t recall where, when or how I heard about this idea, but I remember thinking, “Nice. I can do that.” Any kind of place [...]
If you’re looking for a great dessert, and you want to prepare and bake it yourself, I have a dessert for you. Yes, I do. I haven’t met one person who can resist it. It’s easy to prepare and it’s delicious.
A few years ago I bought the book, MORE HOME COOKING: A Writer Returns to [...]
December is around the corner. It gets crazy at that time of the year. If we let it. The commercials on television almost seem to demand that we buy, buy, and buy some more; All in the name of that word called joy. A joyous this and a joyous that – if we buy. Every [...]
The trip to Baltimore was not quite what I had expected. On Thanksgiving Day my daughter, Emi, and I boarded an Apex bus scheduled to leaveat 1:30 pm at East Broadway. We didn’t leave as scheduled. And we passengers waited until 2:15 before inquiring about the delay. First among ourselves, then to one of the [...]
We, my youngest daughter and I, like to travel to Boston from Manhattan on Fung Wah bus www.fungwah.com . It makes for interesting travel and we pay all of $60 round trip for two. Fung Wah leaves from Chinatown. No rules and regulations. Just show up, buy a ticket, board the bus and away [...]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE –
We all have our own reasons for being grateful. But there are times when we simply want to flee the holidays. Times when they’re overwhelming. When we don’t want to eat turkey or see those people or have to talk or laugh. Times when we want to be somewhere else. [...]
They say that people are either book, magazine, or newspaper readers. It could be true. Usually I like books with just a quick look at a magazine or newspaper. However, while walking along 23rd Street in Manhattan I saw Universal News located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The shop has a huge selection of [...]
Someone I saw only briefly continues to bring a sense of wonder to me when I think about him. I saw him in Vilcabamba, Ecuador as I sat on a mini bus waiting to go to Loja, a drive of an hour or so, depending on who’s driving. That morning I was an early passenger [...]
I love good quotes. Sometimes they set the stage for the day, or they propel you into capturing the essence of an idea that, for the longest time, hovered at surface level, or they give insight into managing a difficult situation in an elegant way or, for a brief moment, give a feeling of complete [...]
I wouldn’t mind being in Panama right now. There’s a place in the Chiriqui area called Boquete, and just like Vilcabamba in Ecuador, life is unspoiled, people are kind; they don’t rush, and there’s so much beauty in the surrounding mountains. Once you’ve stayed a bit, and experienced the way life is there, you never [...]