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30 Apr
She has that wonderful “I don’t give a damn” attitude that seems to come to many people as they age. This octogenarian interior...
23 Apr
As I told my son last night, I believe that one of the most valuable additions to our lives of the last dozen years is the TED talk. We watch,...
22 Apr
On Meditation. We lost a remarkable man last week..a writer, environmentalist, activist and, as he says about himself, “an old lefty.” He...
19 Apr
I rushed off to see a lovely show at the Met of Charles Marville’s mid-18th century photographs of Paris streets. While beautiful in...
10 Apr
The ceilings soar, the service impresses and the food enchants. The architects of this trifecta are Executive Chef Bryce Shuman, former Executive...
5 Apr
It took a birthday, a friend, and three sisters to lead me to UnderOurSky, a delicious (and dangerously desirous) website of beautiful objects. My...
31 Mar
I joined my son and his girlfriend on a day’s outing to find a dog to adopt. Val, Justin’s wonderful adopted chow, died 7 months...
30 Mar
In restaurants I usually go for the smaller, more intimate spaces rather than the splashy stage sets of which Jean George’s Spice Market...
26 Mar
This is a place where land floats on water; where caimans soak in the shallows, and capybaras graze on flowers; where marsh deer nestle in...
19 Mar
Officer Fang’s Barbarian Horse Barbarian steed, pride of Ferghana, All jags and angles, well-knit bones; Two ears cocked, sharp as bamboo...
16 Mar
An hour and a half from Puerto Valle, In the Province of Misiones, is the authentic, family owned and run, Estancia Santa Cecilia. Occupied...
16 Mar
This is another Argentina, a place remote and untrod, where water meets sky along a flat horizon, where land is not land as we know it, firm...
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