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 … [Continue reading]
Better than the last LOST: San Francisco in 1906…but maybe not better than 24.
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 … [Continue reading]
Must you deconstruct everything?
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! … [Continue reading]
MACAULAY ARTS NIGHT V. ENRON
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, … [Continue reading]
La la la Pulitzer!(Bracha)
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, … [Continue reading]
BRUNO STRONG!
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 … [Continue reading]
Notes on Cupcakes (Bracha)
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 … [Continue reading]
More on the iPad (Bracha)
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 … [Continue reading]
It’s the case, stupid
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 … [Continue reading]
Spring Fever (Bracha)
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. … [Continue reading]