I was lucky enough to be a guest at La Grenouille on the day it won three stars…quite well deserved. Delicious soup to begin with, and a frisee salad with smoked salmon and poached egg. And I tasted my host’s quenelle, which were ever bit as good as the review suggests. Alas, no wine, had […]
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
December 23, 2009 by
Enjoy the break!
December 23, 2009 by
Hope the holiday brings you lots of time for friends and family, good books, good movies, good food, and time to relax.? For Macaulay students studying abroad, keep blogging and let us enjoy vicariously through your travels!
Wolf Hall
December 20, 2009 by
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating: 3 of 5 stars oh, but there is SO MUCH of it! I don’t normally kvetch about long books, but this one just will not end. I am listening to it as an audio book, but also switching off to the hard copy, and both are making me […]
SNAPSHOT 2009
December 6, 2009 by
Class of 2012 is in the house today.? What’s it like to see your photograph catagorized and hung by someone else?? Maybe your photograph screamed ETHNIC to you but it was put with PORTRAITS, or you saw NATURE and the curators saw HOME?? Makes me think of that Freud quote I always liked:? “A work […]
Seeking a co-pilot
December 4, 2009 by
Isn’t it pathetic?? Because I let too much time go by between postings, I never get fully comfortable with Word Press.? And then I let even more time go by.? Nothing worse than stale blog.? Worse than leftover salad. For instance,? one friend complained that I spent a lot of time writing about my son’s […]
Forget Bookmark
October 12, 2009 by
I should have known better than to get too excited too fast.? Bookmark takes all the fun out of the iPhone audiobook experience….well, not all of it, but a lot.? No longer can you be listening happily and also take a quick peek at email, or answer a phone call, or do anything at all.? […]
Attention audiobook lovers!
September 13, 2009 by
There are more important things to talk about, I’m sure, but I must immediately note the teensy but welcome enhancement for quotidian life with the arrival of the great app BOOKMARK. As I am deeply engrossed with Steeg Larson’s Girl who Played With Fire, read by the great Simon Vance, I am grateful not to […]
What’s New York good for?
August 28, 2009 by
Turns out that New York is really good for freshmen orientation!? Hard to believe that we could accomplish the excitement and quality of Macaulay College orientation anywhere else in the world. I already gushed about Outward Bound in Central Park and the beauty of seeing 440 freshmen fan out across the city to work in […]