Entries from October 2009

October 26, 2009

Leaves!

Everyone and their mother was out and about in the Rockefeller Preserve today and with good reason. The leaves are fantastically colorful today. I haven’t been around NY for autumn in five years, and now I realize yet again that New York is spectacularly beautiful.

October 19, 2009

Irony in the Hollow

So you know how it’s hard to describe irony without using an example? Well…I have a doozey! It’s so wonderful I could burst.

First, a little background. Hold your horses. Ha ha, horses. You will see why that’s funny in a minute.

I live in Sleepy Hollow. That’s right, the real Sleepy Hollow. As [...]

October 16, 2009

Plimoth Plantation: Live History

I remember school field trips as feeling restricted: No, you cannot touch that, it’s very old; No, you cannot go up the stairs, only staff; No you cannot sit on that chair bed stool bicycle, it’s worth more than you are; No, of course you must not breath. There were some exceptions, but overall, [...]

October 15, 2009

Cops and Robbers Movie

It all started by looking at a bank.  Well, that’s not entirely true because we had been doing things like this all our lives.  But for our purposes,  it started by looking at a bank.  “Doesn’t that bank look like the perfect bank for an old fashioned cops and robbers movie?”  I don’t remember who [...]

October 7, 2009

The Best Fortune Ever!

I just opened up a fortune cookie expecting the usual disappointing piece of paper stating something useless and lacking in pith.  Oh how wrong I was to underestimate the fortune cookie! Check it out!
“You are the crispy noodle in the vegetarian salad of life.”
Score!  But what does it mean??? Why is it just a [...]