Hey, I had lunch here today! 3 stars@La Grenouille

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 … [Continue reading]

Blog-o-disaster!

I do love end of the world movies.  In fact, I saw 2012 today, which was bad enough to be campy, so you know I have a serious lack of dystopic standards. But little did I know when I clicked on the "upgrade!" link on Word Press, a disaster of a … [Continue reading]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

[Continue reading]

Enjoy the break!

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! … [Continue reading]

Wolf Hall

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 … [Continue reading]

SNAPSHOT 2009

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 … [Continue reading]

Seeking a co-pilot

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 … [Continue reading]

Forget Bookmark

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 … [Continue reading]

Attention audiobook lovers!

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 … [Continue reading]

What’s New York good for?

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 … [Continue reading]