I went hiking at Weir farm National Historic Site recently with some friends from a hiking meetup.
The site includes old farm buildings and a huge acreage of gardens and forest.
We hiked around Weir Pond and into the woods.
it was early evening in the summer and the light was very pretty coming through the trees.
The buildings [...]
Elin Hilderbrand’s A Summer Affair, is supposed to be a beach read. You know this because there is an image of two cute pairs of feet kissing in the sand on the book’s cover.
The fact that this layered, well-structured and sometimes thoughtless novel is supposed to be a beach read indicates a complication not only [...]
Last night, I went to see A Catered Affair at the Thomas Kerr Theatre on Broadway. This was a fluke: one of the board members where I work called and said she had spare tickets for that evening, so I was off on the train to the city a few hours later.
Tom Wopat was a [...]
I like to be tormented. Anyone who knows me can tell you that.
Squirrels are my latest rant. We are infested with them in our yard! Apparently that fat squirrel wasn’t just enjoying the pickings of our compost pile… she was out swinging the cat around a couple months ago and now we have 10 squirrels [...]
I try not to love the internet as much as I do, but there are so many good reasons.
Here’s another good reason to check it out. Not only can you buy secondhand things on Craigslist, you can buy all sorts of things you never knew you might not be able to live without.
I got down with my pen and laptop at the 2008 NY Writers’ Coalition Write-a-Thon yesterday. Here is a sample of some bits I wrote–the RESULTS of the Send me a Writing Idea Competition! (selected by independent judge C. Phillips).
Runner Up - T. Mallie!
haiku for T. Mallie
lace panties annoy
the sort of girl who prefers
paper to [...]
That’s Me… The bad wife, the bad influence. The pancake and pale ale pusher. This photo (at right) illustrates the crazed result.
My hubby has been trying to slim down and he’s been doing a great job of it, despite my existence. Perhaps you’ve read the blog he shares with my brother, Loser In Laws, or [...]
Or… Where to Find the Best Seat on Earth
I really dug Eric Nuzum’s theory on crazy people riding the bus on a new favorite blog, The Prince of Petworth.
My pal Cathy lives in this area of Washington D.C. and introduced me to this fab blog about a, at best, up and coming, and at worst, [...]
Or… The Lost Art of Playing Games
Brett Favre is retiring from football.
Brett Favre is also stepping down, out of the limelight. He is relinquishing his role as one of the few people left to look up to in sports. It was something he took seriously.
There are more than few people we can think of, off [...]
Or… How To Make Dinner ala Costco
One of the side effects of living overseas for three years is that you get out of the all-American habit of buying food in BULK.
Large supermarkets are not as rare over there as they once were, but Europeans still tend to shop for the day, picking up ingredients for [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Best Way to Make Best Actress “Not There”
Every year the Academy changes up the Oscars to try and make better, faster, stronger. It’s the Six Million Dollar Man of television really.
Usually one of those tactics is to just drown out the nobodies when they are giving their speeches so that they are forced to stop [...]
Saturday, February 23, 2008
My good friend Suzanne was kind enough to tell me about the March 2008 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Besides featuring the talented Rihanna on the cover, it also titallates readers and lures them over to the magazine stand with its usual circus of SEX, SEX, and CHEATING.
But that wasn’t what caught my eye and really [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
Waking up to this blanket of snow is as unfamiliar as if I had stepped into a movie scene for White Christmas. This is the winter I imagined. This is what I expected from Connecticut. But we’ve had lovely, undefined days, mostly. The kind that almost ache in their beauty: winter sunshine stretching out as [...]
Friday, February 15, 2008
I met a photographer for the Hartford Courant, Michael Kodas, at Green Drinks the other night and it turns out he is also the author of this book. High Crimes.
I’ve always been skeptical about mountain climbers, especially those who climb places that are truly death-defying. I think this might have something to do with the [...]
Who doesn’t love a hero? And after a gorgeous performance in Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning deserves to be one.
So, with 2008 marked already as the Year of Green, I can only humbly ask that our first hero of the year, Giants quarterback Eli Manning, give BACK to Cadillac the keys to their hybrid Escalade [...]