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Dear little one, we're in a museum... see the color red? It's a painting... 

Holiday food shopping at Grace’s (of Balducci fame): $2.59 for a small bunch of parsley? – I say under my breath. What? – asks a curious r...

tight aisles, stuffed shelves, pushy shoppers, great food 

Why not go to the flagship Whole Foods on Columbus Circle? As of Sunday, the wait in line was estimated at an hour minimum. On the way ho...

Destination for today: west 53rd street. I have such fond memories of west 53rd street. Between the ages of 10 and 13 it was probably the mo...

The plane lands, I make my way to the phone booth for the great transformation. Goodbye sweet demeanor, hello metal-twisting, people-punchin...

I haven’t spent a Thanksgiving in NY since… (before you were born? maybe..) 1977. Back THEN , I went to see my parents who were temporarily ...

Hey, I am so sorry to be out of town and missing the wedding this week-end [of the off-spring of her husband]. It’s not a big deal. Just fa...

Further good reasons to be traveling to Warsaw in December: …I suppose they’ll restore the electricity in Warsaw soon (cause of blackout:...

As I was fixing my exciting dinner of scrambled eggs and put-by asparagus from the summer Market, I flicked on the National Book Awards, mom...

Oscar is complaining about an overcrowded email Inbox. I am sympathetic. Mine has long crossed the 1000-message mark and since I have a sep...

I'll pay someone good money to come and tell me what I should do with all this. 

After I photographed it, I closed it and left it alone. I'll worry about it tomorrow. 

Ann scooped the link that I’d been thinking about all morning – the NYT interview with the Austrian Nobel laureate, Elfriede Jelinek. A...

Wouldn’t you know it, the Prince of Wales has gotten himself into a pickle, with a statement he issued concerning educational attainment. I...

Another day at the computer, pounding away at a self-imposed assignment. Hours pass and I do not notice. Outdoors, there is a transition fro...

For the rest of us, it's always a countdown toward spring. So why would I choose to travel to the place pictured below in a couple of...

Madison, November 20 2004 

Warsaw, November 20 2004

For the American reader, it’s a small issue really: whether the EU should incorporate a certain patent directive (read here , via FistfulofE...