In my last post, chronicling the beginning of the action-packed day when I toured Manhattan with George, a young visitor from G...

(Too much still to do, too little time, so I'm re-posting this four-year-old essay about my Christmas trees.  It  still applies--I...

--> Last year Amalia celebrated Christmas in Nicaragua, touring the outdoor nativity scenes on view everywhere.   This Chris...

(This is a re-post from the past, but this year I've already got my four trees --described below--  up at home in Massachusetts,...

  Last Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, was a perfect fall day under a flawless blue sky, and New Yorkers each marked the anniversa...