Ocean

BBC is reporting that Polanski, who is living in France to avoid facing a sentence for a conviction for a child sex offense in the States, w...

I was working out this morning at the gym, reading a FOOD magazine (crazy, I know), and I came across this question (see poll below). It hit...

Tom Brokaw is interviewed on the Daily Show tonight. Tom Brokaw reveals that he was surprised by the popular vote. Jon Stewart misses an o...

Thanks to that screaming New Yorker in our building (TB), I found myself taking the "Are you a real New Yorker" quiz on the Time O...

I’m so glad I had the news on tonight. I would not have otherwise known that corporate ingenuity would steer a company to create something t...

I could use a couple like that: friends that could be trusted to say "you are so cooooool, Nina! Yeah! you know those chumps who call y...

I was a senior in high school in Poland in 1968, a mere 23 years after the end of World War II. The history teacher who taught us the Nuremb...

I went to eat dinner at Crescent City Grill with Chef O from l’Etoile and a bunch of summer L’Etoilers to celebrate the end of the most succ...

Last week I was telling my senior colleague how much I loved my Astor Piazzola CD (you know, the tango guy from Argentina). Did I ever read...

This statement about SUVs (and Americans) was made by a professor of transport psychology at a university in Edinburgh (IHT story here ). ...

Several of my friends are dating these days. Looking to find a partner in life, they turn to me with questions that I find difficult to answ...

It’s odd to feel pleased in reading that we are not, after all, moving in a direction of strong “family values” and good “clean” fun. We are...

Is there a person on this planet who hasn’t yet heard that I am 51 years old? I am on a campaign to infuse with pride the adding of deliciou...

It was so good not to have to work this morning. I climbed up on the roof and cleaned gutters this morning. Friends got me moving early ...

Yes I am. It was great fun to react to the good, the bad and the ugly too. Like in politics, you can never be as clever pushing your own ag...

This is the first Saturday morning at home for me since early April. [For those who are new to Ocean , I occasionally moonlight at the resta...

I’ve written that I spent this morning in the Dells. And I’ve reminisced about a winter sun gently touching Polish river banks. So where are...

river banks... 

...and winter light 

Correct, it’s Madison. This afternoon I took a long walk with someone I hadn’t seen for a long time. We hiked along the Wingra creek – just ...