I registered my domain in 1998 and soon thereafter set up web hosting with Earthlink. Hey, it was 1998! My first website was created to keep friends and family informed about my son’s hospitalization; we didn’t call it a blog, but that’s actually what it was, complete with a guest book that I would read […]
Better than the last LOST: San Francisco in 1906…but maybe not better than 24.
May 22, 2010 by
I share the common opinion that LOST lost it after the first year, though I have remained sort of loyal for all these years. But not with the devotion I have to 24. Those writers knew something about character and how we attach to it. Jack Bauer has unfolded bit by bit over the years, […]
Must you deconstruct everything?
May 16, 2010 by
I found this picture on the Guardian website and found it rather depressing. Yeah, I know, it’s just a machine. Am writing on an article on creativity and the iPad — please send me any great examples or apps you’ve discovered!
MACAULAY ARTS NIGHT V. ENRON
April 30, 2010 by
I had to leave Macaulay Arts Night to see the new Broadway show, ENRON, and I wish I had stayed. Enron was boring, didactic, frantic, and way too long. Macaulay Arts Night — dynamic, exciting, creative to the max. Painting, performance, poetry, video, graphic design. Fabulous cookies. Congratulations to the Macaulay Arts Night team and […]
La la la Pulitzer!(Bracha)
April 19, 2010 by
Paul Harding’s Tinker, a novel published by the Bellevue Literary Press, won the Pulitzer Prize last week. Two summers ago, I interned at that small publication within the walls of Bellevue hospital. Each morning, I would walk down First Avenue, past the man on the corner with the red turban around his head who was […]
BRUNO STRONG!
April 14, 2010 by
Bruno Salazar was traveling with two other Macaulay@City College seniors in Costa Rica last week. They were there to volunteer as tutors in an orphanage, and then they continued on for a few days of touring, before a catastrophic accident on an ATV left Bruno with a severe spinal cord injury that may leave him […]
Notes on Cupcakes (Bracha)
April 7, 2010 by
A Symbol of Status in the Me-Me-Me Generation Hello, my name is Bracha and I am cupcake-junkie. Can I just say, YUM? Any visit to the Upper West Side requires a stop at Magnolia Bakery for my fix: red velvet. What is it about cupcakes that is so enticing? Immortalized by Sex and the City, […]
More on the iPad (Bracha)
April 7, 2010 by
I do not have an iPad yet (though I believe it is time to make some big technological changes in my life), but have been watching the digital drama unfold over the weekend (and on this blog). The NYTimes published an interesting piece in their Room for Debate blog yesterday called: The iPad in the […]
It’s the case, stupid
April 7, 2010 by
Now I am actually over the novelty factor, I promise. No handwriting recognition continues to nag at me, since I really want to hand write notes. The weight is more troublesome than I imagined. HOWEVER, I’M STILL IN LOVE. Reading books is far better than I imagined. iBooks is far better than Kindle, but the […]
Spring Fever (Bracha)
April 4, 2010 by
It is spring! The season beckons exclamation points. Leaves! Tulips! Sparrows hopping and chirping! My heavy winter coat no longer suffocates me with its wooly warmth. A light spring jacket—in pastels! (Okay, that was a joke. I will only wear black. I will only wear black. I will only wear black. But it’s spring! Let […]