Waiting can be a good thing, if we let it. I’ve read that when we’re waiting, we should simply be where we are, and not be anxious; that we should train ourselves to be in present time and observe the happenings around us, and not think of where we want to be, or the slowness [...]
I’ve been trying to get a handle on all the artificial sweeteners being used by consumers who think they’re merely using sugar substitutes. After reading ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS by Janet Starr Hull, Ph.D., C.N. Total Health Magazine www.totalhealthmagazine.com Volume 27, No. 1, and INDUSTRY DESPERATE TO PUT OUT THE ASPARTAME FIRE New Mexico, USA [...]
Have you been to El Quijote Restaurant at 226 West 23rd Street in Manhattan? It’s one of those places I’ve walked by many times, and had l not called my daughter Sumi to suggest dinner, it would have remained that way. Choosing a restaurant is always a matter of hmm, what will it be tonight, [...]
Everything is different outside of Manhattan. But you know that. I wanted to go to Harrison, Rye, Hartsdale White Plains and other towns along the way to check out possibilities, sort of a quest to find the right place. I took the New Haven Line at Grand Central. A friend of a friend met me [...]
Yesterday a friend and I took the Metro-North Hudson Line at Grand Central. Garrison, NY was the destination to check out rental possibilities. We asked the conductor if he knew of Garrison. He said, “There’s lots of trees there.” That didn’t help much. However, a stranger sitting across from us with a love of the [...]
If I had an eating establishment, I’d want it to be City Bakery in Manhattan – just as it is – not a thing would I change. City Bakery opened its doors for the first time on 16th Street near Union Square quite a few years ago. It was a small, narrow, cozy place. Its [...]
In Eckhart Tolle’s book, A NEW EARTH, on pages 199 and 200 under the heading “IS THAT SO?” he relates a story which explains beautifully and succinctly what living in the present moment is all about. The next time you’re in a bookstore, walk over to the section where A NEW EARTH is and [...]
There are people in our lives who think they know what’s best for us (we do the same, but that’s another story). Sometimes these people don’t listen to us, but are ready with advice. We can often let that advice go because it’s our inner sense we want to learn to listen to. It will [...]