I woke up yesterday morning feeling vaguely depressed, but until my husband, Nick, wished me “happy birthday”, I didn’t realize this was...

  In my forthcoming book “The Saga of Smiley”, which chronicles the history of the Smiley Face icon since it was ...

  All photographs by Erika Sidor    Back when I was a child and attended a Presbyterian church, ...

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

 You often hear long-time New Yorkers say things like: “I’d never been to the Empire State Building (or the Stat...

Last Friday, the first day of 2016, I sent the following letter to the Public Editor of The New York Times .    I knew I was beating a de...

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