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September 11, 2001
8:46 am – American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of The World Trade Center. I am in The Nectar getting coffee to go. I stop to tease Andreas the chef about something deciding to just...
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Teddy
I was ambling up 5th Avenue on my way home when I heard organ music in the distance. It was so beautiful that I followed it right inside the vestibule of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. As I climbed...
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All Ain’t Fair In Love and War
A while back I penned a post called Memoir Unrequited complaining about an author’s reluctance to completely come clean. Well to counter that, I just read a memoir that rocked me to my core: Ghosts By...
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What Ever Will Be Will Be
Que Sera Sera and how I want to smack that Doris Day. This is a tough one for me, to leave things alone. Relinquishing control has never been one of my strong points. How could it be since I am...
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Poor Susannah’s Almanac
I was perusing books at the library and came upon a biography on Benjamin Franklin called The First American by H.W. Brands, a prolific, sexy Professor from Austin Texas. I’ve been reading his new book...
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Wrapping it Up
I don’t normally blog on the weekends but feel the need to considering what the week has been. Most of Manhattan, I’m happy to say, will have restored power as of tonight. The outer boroughs still have...
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Why Women Should Vote
It’s a great privilege for anyone to be able to have a say in who will lead their country, but American women in particular need to remember we didn’t always have that right. It wasn’t until 1920 when...
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The Sore Loser
Jed and I went to the Viand early Sunday morning to have our usual bad coffee and so-so English Muffin. The better cafes open a little later on the weekends so our choices are limited. We drink the...
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Look, It’s Traveller (Lincoln review)
Abraham Lincoln is one of my favorite heroes in history. (he’s reading in this photograph) I’ve read so many books about him that it feels as though I knew him so when Daniel Day-Lewis first appears...
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Hyde The Salam On Hudson
As you know, I love history so I couldn’t wait to see the new film, Hyde Park On Hudson with Bill Murray playing FDR. I had seen a preview which I have to say was quite misleading since it implied the...
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Family Dinner
I don’t watch episodic television as a rule, but I do love the show Blue Bloods, Friday nights at 10 on CBS. I don’t watch it then, I usually go to CBS.com the following night viewing it on my...
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Tender Mercer
I was at the library the other day sitting between two women having a passionate discussion about Lucy Mercer, one of the most famous mistresses in American History. They have a lovely little room off...
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America’s Day Off
It’s Labor Day in the U.S.A. and we Americans take it very seriously. Not only is no one working but they’ve more or less flown the coop. My neighborhood is so dead it looks like an abandoned movie...
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What About The Children
Today is the twelfth anniversary of September 11th, so the irony of this is not lost on me. I’m not political. I merely pray and hope for the best where our leaders are concerned, which I’d admit, is...
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Hate As A Pastime
I was eavesdropping again. You can’t really help it when you’re out carousing alone. It’s as though you have an antenna that picks up random frequencies, frequently, I might add. This time I was...
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It’s Ms Lewinsky To You
Nothing like resurrecting yourself from the ashes of ashes. Monica Lewinsky is once again all over the news. In case you live under a rock, she in 1996 at twenty-two (now forty) gave the most famous...
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Ten Things You May Not Know
1) Out of the 3000 people who died at The World Trade Center (323 firefighters), 1100 were never found…bones and all disappearing into the earth’s atmosphere. 2) Theodore Roosevelt, out of 42 American...
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Let Freedom Ring
If you were to ask me what women I admire most, Lady Liberty would be in my top three. As a matter of fact, if it wasn’t so hot I’d be in a robe and tiara myself, not shorts and a tee to commemorate...
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An Eye For An Eye For An Eye For An Eye
What is happening to our world, a loaded question if there ever was one. Looking through back newspapers at the library, I came across the headline…80 Little Lives Lost. It was referring to the kids on...
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A Voter’s Experience
I know so many people who didn’t vote because as most of them put it, what’s the point? The point is, for the privilege of it. And naturally yesterday morning those, I told you so, emails floated in...
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